ABSTRACT
There has been a quantum leap in knowledge about the root causes of emotional and behavioural difficulties in children over the last two decades-starting with the ‘decade of the brain’ in the 1990s. In this period, neuroscience has helped to clarify much muddled and contradictory thinking. In particular, it has given powerful support to the emergence of a new perspective, which offers a way of understanding emotional life by focusing on the regulation of emotions. This is the approach that will be described here.
