Dr. Graham Music

Author, consultant psychotherapist, trainer

Graham Music

Consultant Psychotherapist

Dr. Graham Music is an internationally renowned trainer, author, and both a child and adolescent psychotherapist, as well as a speaker and supervisor. His writings have been seminal, having an impact on how we understand child and adolescent development and why this is important for anyone working with children. Professor Jeremy Holmes described him as 'The David Attenborough of child development research', and Peter Fonagy as '‘certainly one of the best and probably the most deep-thinking child psychotherapists in the world.'.

Graham Music

Consultant Psychotherapist

Dr. Graham Music is an internationally renowned trainer, author, and both a child and adolescent psychotherapist, as well as a speaker and supervisor. His writings have been seminal, having an impact on how we understand child and adolescent development and why this is important for anyone working with children. Professor Jeremy Holmes described him as 'The David Attenborough of child development research', and Peter Fonagy as '‘certainly one of the best and probably the most deep-thinking child psychotherapists in the world.'.

Course curriculum

    1. Thank you for joining this course

    2. Nature, nurture or both

    3. Just born, what's the difference compared to life in utero?

    4. Extraordinary capacity for synchrony and mutual communication even in a very premature baby

    5. Why the first 1001 days are so important

    1. The breast crawl

    2. what is important about the breast crawl?

    3. Another breast crawl, from a UNICEF film hosted by youtube

    4. There are many different ways to rear and even feed a baby

    5. Just Watch This: What a brand new baby can do

    6. A few thoughts about what we have just seen

    1. A few thoughts on bonding

    2. Humans are not sheep or geese

    3. An amusing clip about animal bonding featuring Robert Winston

    4. Child abandonment is real: We can help with this

    5. Mothering is VERY tough: see Catherine Tait and have compassion!

    1. Chapter themes

    2. Harry Harlow Story

    3. Driven by a desire to connect: the example of smell

    4. Babies can see from birth

    5. Babies are drawn to voices they recognise, especially of people they rely on

    6. imitation

    7. Summary

    1. Infants have brains with wide potential

    2. How the brain develops and how it is adaptive

    3. The amazing human brain

    4. The brain adapts to its environment, whether loving or stressful

    5. Why we need to intervene early

    1. A Chapter on Culture

    2. Culture shapes our brains and bodies

    3. A video about cultural difference

    4. When people do things differently, it can be a challenge for us

    5. Swaddling

    6. Individualistic or sociocentric beliefs.: Touch and sleep

    7. Differences in belief and practice can be challenging

About this course

  • £15.99
  • 44 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

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