Tia Hartstock of the Office of Wellness and Resilience emphasized that community involvement and parental modeling are ...

In 2010 Dr. Naomi Baum was part of a mission to Haiti. At the time, she was a psychologist with 30 years of experience. In the year 2000 she started working specifically with trauma, when the second ...

A new University of Mississippi-led study suggests that a telepractice resilience program may help children who stutter develop coping and self-advocacy skills. For many children who stutter, one of ...

Around 20% of eight to 16 year olds in the UK had a probable mental health disorder in 2023, according to NHS statistics. This is up from 12.5% in 2017. At the same time, a 2024 report from the ...

Is it just me or are screens dominating much of our children’s (and our own!) lives? It seems like a good time to remind all of us, parents and non-parents, that the importance of outdoor activities ...

Research points to the long-term consequences of high levels of childhood stress on later health and psychosocial development. However, it is also well documented that not all forms of adversity are ...

Parenting often means protecting so we shield our children from pain, offer solutions and step in before they falter but in doing so, we may inadvertently send a message, “You’re weak if you need help ...

I sat around a table with a group of fourth graders learning to be mentors for younger students, and a girl looked at me and said, “Now whenever I am upset, I have Buddy and Snuggles in my head.” ...

Psychosocial resilience refers to the dynamic process through which young people facing adversity maintain or regain mental health and adaptive functioning. It emerges from the interaction of ...