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NeuroRelational Care's 3 Steps to Reducing Toxic Stress and Increasing Resilience

 

The NRC's SECOND STEP is about the RELATIONSHIP:

In this step, we assess and address relational safety through 7 Qualities of Engagement. Learn more with the NRF Qualities of Engagement with Ages handout in the NRF's Free Starter Kit.

STEP 2: The Trunk, or Relationship
Measures Qualities of Engagement between children and their adults to enhance relationship safety and social-emotional development. We start at the bottom to make sure lower brain-system needs are met, and then work our way up the Qualities to promote executive function development.

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Qualities of Engagement are based on Greenspan and Weilder's Social Emotional Development of DIR/Floortime.
 
The NRF is detailed in an academic text called Infant/Child Mental Health, Early Intervention, and Relationship-based Therapies: A Neurorelational Framework For Interdisciplinary Practice by Connie Lillas and Janiece Turnbull. This text is included in the Daniel Siegel-founded Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology found here.