Distance Learning Event Archived WEBCAST
Family Stories and Adolescent Identity and Well-Being
Robyn Fivush, Ph.D., Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology, Emory University
In this presentation, Dr. Fivush examines narrative approaches to understanding self and well-being in adolescence, and examines the role of personal stories and intergenerational stories, stories about one's parents, and their parents before them, in helping adolescents to create a sense of self grounded in the past yet situated in the present that provides a core sense of well being in the world.
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Children and Chaos: How chaotic environmental settings influence human development from infancy through adolescence
Featuring Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center Faculty
College of Human Ecology
Learn about:
· social and psychological components
· how a chaotic environment influences children's development from infancy through adolescence
· physical environment effects
· effects of individual difference among children
· how forces such as culture or socioeconomic status relate to chaos
Gain ideas for application to education and human service delivery programs with parents, caregivers, and others who are concerned with child well-being.
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Handouts
Chaos Amidst Stability-Summary Article
Poverty and Chaos-Summary Article
The Effects of the Physical Environment on Children's Development
"Ricciuti Lecture" Archived WEBCAST
Ethnic and Class Disparities in School Readiness: Closing the Gap
with
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D.
Co-director, National Center for Children & Families, Columbia University
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development at Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Professor Brooks-Gunn brings a rich background as a developmental psychologist to the Center, specializing in policy-oriented research that focuses on family and community influences on the development of young children. Her research centers on designing and evaluating interventions and policies aimed at enhancing the well-being of children living in poverty.
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"Faculty Conversation" Archived WEBCAST
The Cutting Edge:
What Parents Need to Know About Self-Injury in Adolescents
with
Janis Whitlock, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate at Cornell University
The increase in the number of youth who self-injure is alarming for adults who work with or parent youth. Associated mainly with the term "cutting", self-injury can also include behaviors such as carving, burning, scratching, punching oneself or other objects, and bone breaking. This workshop summarized what is known about the prevalence and nature of self-injurious behavior in the general youth population, and about how the behavior may be spreading. It included results from a New York State study on self-injury in schools and recommendations for detecting, intervening, and preventing it.
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SLIDES
Self-Injurious Behavior: What Parents Need to Know, slide presentation.
HANDOUTS
Self-Injury: Information for Parents.
Factsheet for Family and Friends
Long and Short Term Responses to SIB
Suggestions for Alternative Behaviors.
School Protocols for Managing Self-Injurious Behaviors.
Lader, Wendy. "A Look at the Increase in Body Focused Behaviors."
White-Kress. "Implications and Strategies for School Counselors."
Alderman, Tracy. "Helping Those Who Hurt Themselves." Journal of Prevention Research.
Additional Resources: Cornell Research Program on Self Injurious Behavior.
"Faculty Conversation"Archived WEBCAST
Courting Disaster? The Worldwide Revolution in Marriage
with Stephanie Coontz
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Stephanie Coontz is a professor of History and Family Studies at Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington and is the author of the recent Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage , and other works such as The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap . Prof. Coontz is also the Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families.
For more information about Professor Coontz, http://www.stephaniecoontz.com.