Three Steps to Resilience: NRF Foundations Manual for Interdisciplinary Practice and International Use

The NeuroRelational Framework (NRF) is body-brain-based approach to development, applicable to early development and across the lifespan. It considers challenging behaviors in children and adults as stress responses. The NRF assesses for toxic stress compromising the nervous system and in three steps, builds resilience in the individual, family, and community systems of care. This NRF’s Three Steps to Resilience Foundations Manual is a collection of psychoeducation and data-collection tools based on developmental brain science. It enables parents and practitioners to reduce and eliminate toxic stress by crafting individualized stress and resilience profiles and improving the quality of relationships, the foundation of development. The NeuroRelational Framework seeks to change the culture of care to make it more respectful, equitable, comprehensive, collaborative, neurologically accurate, and integrated, As you use this manual, you join a community of people who seek a kinder, more effective approach to improving lives.