In concurrent and longitudinal analyses, we examined negative emotionality-by-effortful control interactions in predicting anxiety, depression, and conduct problems in 214 children aged 8–12.
Focus Area: Child & Youth Well-Being & Resilience
Nature & Nurturing: Parenting with Your Child’s Temperament in Mind
Children can present challenging behaviors for very different underlying reasons depending on their temperament, and parents can be more effective if they understand the source of their children’s reactions. Little if any parenting advice that is available to parents provides the critical understanding of the role of children’s temperament in shaping children’s behavior and our parenting. This presentation will provide an opportunity to learn about the sources of children’s temperament or individual differences in their reactions, how temperament can elicit less-than-ideal parenting from even the best of parents, and how to parent more effectively with children’s temperament in mind.
Protecting Youth Mental Health – The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory
This Advisory offers recommendations for supporting the mental health of children, adolescents, and young adults.
Resources for Teens and Tweens
Resources to support your teen and tween’s well-being during COVID-19.
…But Now I See: Using the Lens of Racial Literacy to Understand Racial Trauma and Promote Justice and Healing
Despite its tragic arc, the so-called “double pandemic” has served as an awakening to the realities of racial injustice across a number of systems. On one front, the pandemic of COVID-19 disproportionately impacted Black adults and youth, both physically and psychologically. Meanwhile, we have borne witness to another pandemic, dating back to 1619, which has been a reminder that racism is “alive and sick”. Justice and healing in the face of the insidiousness of racism in its myriad forms require recognizing how it expresses across the lifespan. In this presentation, I will discuss racial literacy as a tool for recognizing racial trauma across a number of systems and life stages. Collectively, we will reflect on how racial seeing and racial noticing are important elements in our mission towards social justice.
Child and Family Well-Being As We Emerge From COVID-19: A Multi-Disciplinary Conversation About How to Support Children and Families After the Pandemic
A multi-disciplinary conversation about how to support children and families after the pandemic with Heather Hill, Ph.D., Anisa M. Ibrahim, MD, Ann Ishimaru Ed.D., and Liliana J. Lengua, Ph.D.