These primers developed by the Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education provide information for classroom teachers to help them identify behaviors in the classroom that are symptomatic of mental health and other psychological issues, with the goal of directing teachers to appropriate resources for the students.
This PDF booklet for caregiving in conflict settings has been developed by Professor Rachel Calam, Dr Aala El-Khani and Dr Kim Cartwright. This booklet is also available in Malay, Myanmar, Pashto, Russian, Ukranian, and Vietnamese.
This webpage by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime provides open access family skills resources in a variety of languages for those at risk of mental health problems due to armed conflict and displacement.
This workshop was offered to providers who work with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated parents or the alternate caregivers of children with incarcerated parents.
In this presentation, Shawn C.T. Jones, Ph.D. discusses 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.
Cultivating Resilience: Black Youth & Family Psychosocial Health with Shawn C.T. Jones, PhD MHS LCP
This study examined bidirectional relations between television exposure and effortful control accounting for the effects of family contextual risk factors.
A new research article on how access to “green space” may affect child mental health. This article is a product of collaboration across disciplines, something CCFW aims to encourage and contribute to. Authored by Jessica Acolin, UW School of Public Health in collaboration with Anjum Hajat, UW School of Public Health, Paula Nurius, UW School of Social Work, and CCFW Director, Liliana Lengua, UW Department of Psychology.
CCFW staff member, Shayla Collins, co-authored this important research article “Who May Be Competent? Mothering Young Children of Color with Disabilities and the Politics of Care” in Equity and Excellence in Education.
As one of the innovative training programs engendered by CCFW, this master’s program at the University of Washington provides specialized training in skills needed to provide mental health services to children and teens in a variety of settings.