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The Empowerment Approach places importance on children understanding the science
behind their differing ‘affect’; as such, it makes links to neurobiology (in a child-accessible way.
FEEL GOOD CHEMICALS: STRESS CHEMICALS
The chemicals released into our body The stress chemicals released into our
when our needs are met well, leading to system to get us ready for threat.
pleasant feelings.
Children are supported to recognise
when these are really needed –
when there is a real threat.
Cortisol
GREEN GROWTH: TOXIC STRESS
The experience of small amounts of The impact of either a highly traumatic
stress that leads to growth: when Feel incident or ongoing adverse
Good Chemicals are released regularly experiences. These lead to a build-up of
into our system, our body can manage stress chemicals in the body, and
small amounts of stress chemicals; just ultimately, toxic stress.
like colour mixing, when we mix some
blue into a bottle of yellow, it turns
green.
