Caregiver-child Biobehavioral Synchrony in Positive Contexts

A key developmental task of the first years of a child’s life is establishing child self-regulatory abilities. Biobehavioral synchrony or the extent to which the caregiver and child coordinate and match their vocalizations, affect, body movements, and touch as well as their physiological and neural responses during face-to-face interactions is theorized to support the development of young children’s emotional self-regulation abilities. This talk will describe the ways in which biobehavioral synchrony promotes infant and young child socio-emotional development and discuss factors such as parental psychopathology that may disrupt this important developmental mechanism. Learn more and register.