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

The NRC's THIRD STEP accesses our 4 Brain Systems:

In this step, we assess and address nervous system strengths and vulnerabilities in the body (regulatory), sensory, social-emotional, and executive systems of the brain. Learn more using the NRF 4 Brain Systems: Support Customized and Collaborative Care handout in the NRF's Free Starter Kit.

The NeuroRelational Framework conceptualized the four brain systems from the work of M. Marsel Mesalum, a behavioral neurologist at Northwestern University.

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.