Research on Positive Child Development!
The Clinical Map explains how children integrate language, sensory modulation, cognitive skills, spatial skills, and motor skills in purposeful and meaningful ways in the family system. We integrate several disciplines including ABA, child development, relational neuroscience, and sensory development using a Top-down and bottom-up behavior analysis.
The Clinical Map explains how the Medical Model of ABA and The Social Model of Family come together as one coherent developmental system. Mastering all these critical areas depends on identifying the 5-functional character structures of child development.
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Send Me A Copy!Why is the Medical Model Missing the Mark?
No Family-Centered Science
The Medical Model doesn't understand how behavior patterns come together and integrate into parent-child relationship. Instead, the child is treated in isolation. The Social Model of family is random. The Medical Model is not designed to work with the family, it works around them.
No Understanding Of The Whole Child
The Medical Model has no scientific shared narrative. Each expert gives you advice about the data, but no one explains how the collection of data come together in child development and family. The Medical Model treats the symptom but misses the meaning behind them.
Ethical Blind Spot
Without the Social Model of Family, the Medical Model can't achieve a science of wellness across the lifespan. Through the medical model lens, well-ness and flourishing are random. Until we restore objective-values, a family-centered science, every step becomes motion without real progress.
A Meaning Crisis in Child Development and Family in a High Technological Age
We are living in the most technologically advanced time in world history.
Yet despite this prosperity, families and children are struggling more than ever before.
Common struggles we see:
- Anxiety and Rumination
- Compulsion and Perseveration
- ADHD Symptoms and Executive Function Dysregulation
- Autism and Fix-Action Patterns
- High Context Switching
- Sensory Dysregulation (Sensory Craving, hyper/hypo-sensitivity)
- Identity, Emotional and Motivational Confusion
- Oppositional Defiant Behaviors and Meltdowns
The evidence is clear:
- According to the CDC, psycho-stimulant prescriptions among children have increased by 400% since 2003.
- Autism diagnoses have surged by 500% in just 10 years.
- According to the Journal of Pediatrics, 75% of parents report that parenting today is harder than it was a decade ago.
- There are more single parent homes than ever before.
It's Time To Heal The Fragmented Care!
We do this by integrating into an actionable framework that bridges the gap between Medical Model of ABA and the Social Model of family.
Introducing The Clinical Map
The Art And Science of Behavior Analysis in the Family!
How It Works?
The Clinical Map explains the 5-Core Character Structures of Child Development (Exploration, Sensory Information Flow, Play, Social Care and Elimination of Stimuli) through Scientific Narrative Technology.
This approach connects four levels of analysis into one unified system:
- Psychometrics: The Big 5 trait model of personality in child development
- Relational Neuroscience: Top-down (cortical) and bottom-up (limbic) analysis and its integration in the family system
- Enactive Cognitive Science: how children learn relevance through Enabling and Selecting behavior patterns in each character structure
- Contextual Behavior Analysis: ABA (Top-down) and Sensory- based (Bottom-up) strategy in the 5-core character structures of child development
Each level of analysis aligns science with purpose so therapist and parents can finally see how development actually works in the family.
Success Begins At The Foundation!
The Social Model of Family Framework
The 5-core character structures, enabling and selecting behavior patterns and Top-down and Bottom-up Care Systems
As they come together, Top-down and bottom-up care, appetitive states, and enabling and selecting behavior patterns in the 5-core character structures is how children skillfully cope in the environment.
Opponent Processing: Exploration And The Conflict Of Framing
Exploration is at the heart of every child's development, guiding them through abstraction, ideation, embodied experience and pretend play. But for many children, this process is often misguided or interrupted.
Enabling Behaviors are the expression of the child's embodied sensory experience with the environment. Selecting Behaviors are the child's ability to detect and extract meaningful signals from the environment and form connection with ideation and embodied response.
Opponent Processing: Sensory Information Flow And The Conflict Of Motor Planning And Sequencing
At the core of every behavior, lies the process of sensory information flow. This back and forth interaction help children navigate the environment, make decisions and stay motivated. But when attention or motivation wavers, it prevents meaningful engagement with task or relationships.
Enabling behaviors open up possibilities, allowing the child to move towards the realization of reward. Selecting behaviors reduce potential distractors, helping the child follow task by filtering out unnecessary information.
Opponent Processing: Social Affiliation (Play) And The Conflict Of Reward
Play isn't just fun- it's a critical for healthy development. Through play, children learn to explore the social environment and reward by balancing the thrill of pursuing a reward with the satisfaction of achieving it.
Enabling behaviors involve seeking out reward and creating anticipation about the potential for reward. Selecting behaviors reinforce activities that have been reinforcing in the past, cultivating satisfaction.
Opponent Processing: Social Care And The Conflict Of Social Harmony
Social care is the process for nurturing behavior and attachment styles. Many children and caregivers face challenges in balancing self-care with the expectations of social-care.
Enabling behaviors make pro-social possibilities of connection possible by reflexive feeling of empathy. Selecting behaviors reduce the likelihood of anti-social behavior (voluntary) ensuring that positive social possibilities become more probable.
Opponent Processing: Elimination Of Stimuli And The Conflict Of Exposure
Navigating uncertain events is a challenge all children face, and their response can range from passive inhibition or active oppositional behavior. Uncertainty optimization is achieved when the child feels secure while voluntarily facing new challenges.
Enabling behaviors is associated with passive inhibition, where the child reflexively avoids engagement to uncertain event. Selecting behaviors motivate the child to take control of the situation by engaging in active defense with the uncertain event.
What's Included Inside the Clinical Map?
What Makes Us Different?
Practice-Based
We believe that research needs to be integrated into practice, and through research-to-practice, our team has created innovative tools and resources. What is the ultimate purpose of our tools?
- Understand core functioning
- Increase core function
- Increase communication of core
- Engage more fully
Relationship Centered
We don't just study the process of developmental relationship in the family. We identify what is needed to form and strengthen them. The connection between abstract principles and practical tools is how we cement the meaning of family, child development and behaviors.
Is there a guarantee?
Absolutely! The Clinical Map has a 3-Day Satisfaction Guarantee. If you are not completely SATISFIED and ENLIGHTENED by the Clinical Map, then contact us within 3 Days for a full refund, no questions asked!
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