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New podcast episode "HILFE TRAUMA!" Episode 8 with Bärbel Derksen: Early Stress - Early Help
With our latest podcast episode "HILFE TRAUMA!", we stay close to the university enviroment. This time our guest is Bärbel Derksen, a long-time employee at our family centre. It's about developmental psychology, bonding, pregnancy and birth, early help and child protection. There will also be exciting insights into a very lively professional biography.
In episode 8 of "HILFE TRAUMA", we talk to psychologist Bärbel Derksen.
She is a founding member of the Family Centre at the University of Applied Sciences Potsam, where she works both academically and as a counsellor. She has also worked as a state representative for Brandenburg since the Federal Association for Early Help(Bundesverband Frühe Hilfen) was founded.
In the course of her many years of professional activity, she has carried out a great deal of research herself - including together with renowned colleagues such as Mechthild Papoušek and Christiane Ludwig-Körner. She is particularly interested in developmental psychology and its practical relevance for counselling and supporting parents who - for very different reasons - have difficulties in responding sensitively to the needs of their infants and toddlers.
Derksen describes the core of her work as enabling a new perspective: the moment when parents, despite their own doubts or irritation, pluck up the courage to seek help often marks the beginning of a new, healing view of their own actions and experiences.
In this context, we talk about the importance of secure bonding experiences in the first years of life, early signs of stress in babies and how parents and professionals can act in a supportive way.
In this exciting conversation, you will find out why breastfeeding children in crèches and daycare centres should not be overlooked, how video-based counselling works and what helps parents when everyday life with a baby becomes a challenge.
An episode that is not only of great interest to professionals in counselling, early intervention or daycare, but also offers helpful impulses for parents in very different life situations.
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