We maintain a growing collection of research, policy briefs, videos, and downloadable resources on strategies for promoting the social-emotional well-being of infants, children, and youth.
Dr. Phil Fisher, from the University of Oregon, builds on Dr. Lengua’s video to expand on how adversity impacts child development and strategies for promoting resilience.
This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. After more than 30 years of research on social emotional learning (SEL) in classrooms, scientists and practitioners, recognizing that social emotional learning is…
This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. When the primary attachment relationship is secure, children are more likely to have a range of positive outcomes, including empathy, curiosity, adaptive emotional regulation…
This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. Effortful control, a core of self-regulation, has been shown to predict academic, social, and emotional success in both typical and at-risk children. In fact, it is a more robust predictor of early academic and social success than early verbal skills…
Dr. Liliana Lengua examines how familial and social factors associated with adversity can shape children’s brain development as well as promising programs that promote their resilience.
Dr. Ana Mari Cauce, President of the University of Washington, discusses African and Mexican-American parenting styles and how they serve to hinder or help adolescent adjustment.
