PPNE 2nd: Module 6: Psycho-Emotional Developmental Stages of Humans

Module 6: Psycho-Emotional Developmental Stages of Humans: Innate Emotional Needs

Guiding Principle of Innate Needs: The innate need for security, belonging, love and nurturing, feeling wanted, feeling valued, and being seen as the Self we are is present from the beginning of life. Meeting these needs and providing the right environment supports optimal development. This module builds upon Module 5 by analyzing the universal needs all humans have and maps where these needs come on line in the developing embryo, fetus, child, youth, and young adult. This presentation of the psycho-emotional developmental stages of humans reveals how we can create more coherent, regulated relationships in life. When a person can identify needs and understand how to meet them, then compassionate communication styles can unfold along with safe, secure attachment styles.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the Adverse Childhood Experiences study and its implications regarding the impact of early traumatic experiences on the adult body
• Describe how early experiences correlate with adult physiology with research on the impact of the HPA axis, stress versus trauma, maternal depression, disorganized attachment, ADD, ADHD, addiction and interpersonal violence
• Describe the main discoveries in the study of genetics, epigenetics, and attachment that led to therapies which augment repair approaches or recovery from trauma strategies
• Explain the ways in which cultural ‘norms’ undermine health and wellbeing through various forms of identification and denial
• List compassionate birth practices that preserve the psycho-emotional needs of babies as defined by Robin Grille’s 5 Rites of Passage
• Discuss the short-term and long-term psychological consequences of common birth interventions used today, such as pitocin, C-section, and obstetrical interventions