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 developmental psychology, relational neuroscience, and sensory development using a Top-down and bottom-up approach to explain how the Medical Model of Applied sciences and The Social Model of Family come together as a whole. Mastering all these critical areas depends on identifying the 5-functional character structures of child development.
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A Meaning Crisis of Child Development and Family in a High Technological Age
We are living in the most prosperous and most technologically advanced time in world history.
Yet despite this prosperity, families and children are struggling more than ever before.
Child development is facing an unprecedented rise in behavioral and mental health problems. Many children are having difficulties progressing through key developmental stages and many remain satiated in repetitive patterns that limit their well-being and flourishing.
Common struggles we see:
- Anxiety and Rumination
- Compulsion and Perseveration
- ADHD Symptoms and Executive Function Dysregulation
- Autism and fix action patterns
- High Context Switching (attention span dysregulation)
- Sensory Dysregulation (Sensory Craving, hyper/hypo-sensitivity processing profile)
- 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 300% 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.
The Problem: The Medical Model has no clear path to solve this Meaning Crisis
The traditional Medical Model isolates symptoms into diagnostic categories and treats them separately, but child development and family aren’t a collection of separate parts- it’s an integrated system. This means:
- No clear path for medium to long term well-being and flourishing. Only short-term accommodation
- No unified framework that looks at the whole (child-parent-family profile)
- No integration of behavior, intervention, family and social dynamics
As a result, clinicians feel burnt out, parents feel lost, and children remain satiated.
The Solution: Integrating the Medical Model of Applied Sciences with the Social Model Of Family
Forward thinking clinicians are shifting towards an integrative approach- one that moves beyond isolated symptoms and focuses on The Medical Model of Applied sciences embedded in the Social Model of Family.
The Social model of Family is a conceptually systematic framework that reveals the intelligible patterns and coherence in the family system grounded in relational neuroscience (i.e., Evolutionary lens).
How It Works: A Predictable Path To Meaningful Growth
The process of child development in the Family system is not random. It follows clear, predictable patterns based on relational neuroscience, child developmental psychology and ABA.
- Step 1: Define the Child’s Developmental Trajectory: Every child moves from Point A (current state) to Point B (desired state). This journey from Point A to point B involves the sensory motor loop as enabling and selecting constraints.
- Step 2: Clarify What to Value: The biggest challenge in science is understanding what to value and why. What to value isn’t random and it's not subjective. It must satisfy the child’s psychological, social and behavioral well-being, simultaneously, across the short, medium and long term in the family system. Objective values are biological behavior patterns embedded in the 5-core character structure of child development.
- Step 3: Align with the 5-core character structures of child development: The 5-core character structures are the desire to explore, sensory information flow, play, social care and elimination of stimuli. They align with learning theory, the Big 5 factor model of personality and relational neuroscience. The 3 levels of convergent validation is the reason for reliability.
Why This Matters For Clinicians and Parents?
Most applied therapies offer useful tools, but without clear principles, those tools are often:
- Misaligned with the child’s true developmental needs
- Short-term fixes rather than medium to long term integration
- Ineffective at sustaining real progress in the macrocosm of family
This is where the Clinical Map comes into play. For the first time, we have structured, evidence-based systems that integrate child development, ABA and relational science of family into one coherent framework.
The Time of Fragmented Care are Over!
It’s time to re-align and re-integrate into experience through an actionable lens that bridges the Medical Model of applied science and the Social Model of family towards well-being and flourishing for children and families.
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Introducing The Clinical Map
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The Social Model of Family Framework
The 5-core character structures, enabling and selecting behavior patterns and Top-down and Bottom-up Care Systems
Behavior patterns in the character structure of Exploration, Sensory Information Flow, Play, Social Care and Elimination of Stimuli is how children skillfully cope with the environment.
Opponent Processing: Exploration And The Conflict Of Framing
Exploration is at the heart of every child's development, guiding them through abstract ideation, pretend play and embodied experiences. 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 their ideation and embodied response.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, behavior patterns and child development.
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