Are Mood Swings a Mental Health Alarm? How Do I Help my Child?

"A safe, secure space... creates a regulated, calm mental state of being..."

Why is Mental Health so important? What are the typical red flags with children?

Let's learn the recipe for success, the tools we need to balance our minds, and empower our mental health! 

Our guest is Dr. Tanya van Aswegen, a mental health consultant and an advocate for abuse survivors. She specialises in parent-child attachment, child development, and the impact of early adversity on mental health issues, including depression and PTSD.

Brought to you by Epi-Max Baby & Junior - Our Family, for Your Family. Sponsored by Curaprox and supported by Jacaranda FM.

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ABOUT DR. TANYA VAN ASWEGEN

Dr. Tanya van Aswegen is a mental health consultant and an advocate for abuse survivors. She specializes in parent-child attachment, child development, and the impact of early adversity on mental health issues, including depression and PTSD. Dr. van Aswegen completed a joint PhD in Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, funded by an NRF–Nuffic doctoral scholarship. Her dissertation was recognized as being among the top 20% in her field.

Her research combines psychology, neuroscience, and epigenetics, focusing on stress physiology and methylation patterns in stress-regulatory genes. Dr. van Aswegen has held research positions at KU Leuven, consulted for the WHO on neurodevelopment in early childhood, and served as a clinical coordinator for MindMaze, a Swiss neurotechnology company that utilizes virtual reality for neurological rehabilitation and human performance enhancement. She currently works as a clinician on clinical trials.

In addition to her research, Dr. van Aswegen is an award-winning science communicator, recognised as one of South Africa’s Top 10 Science Communicators. She has also published her work in leading peer-reviewed journals.