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Multimedia - This is a mobile app that can help children affected by the war on Ukraine cope with fear, loss, and painful memories, while supporting social and emotional learning.
The app was developed by dr. Hesna AL Ghaoui resilience trainer and communications expert on mental…
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News - Nowadays, most parents and guardians worry that changes, isolation, and anxiety related to the Covid-19 pandemic will affect their children. The article, Feeling Connected to a Parent or Other Caregivers to Manage COVID-related Stress provides information about ways to…
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News - Research shows that approximately 5–15 per cent of Australian children experience significant mental health symptoms following disaster exposure, including grief, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety.
Helping communities move towards positive recovery can be done by…
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Millions of children around the world face separation from their primary caregivers for reasons like divorce, deployment, incarceration, and many others. Any such separation can be considered as Adverse Childhood Trauma (ACEs). Due to this, it is vital that…
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Multimedia - Parents can learn how to help children cope with stress through a free program made possible by OC Health Care Agency (OCHCA).
Learning to cope with challenges and uncertain times is an important life-long skill. This course prepares parents to help their kids…
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News - New insights about positive deviance , infant mortality and community resilience
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Social and demographic factors influence health at an individual and community level
Previously, various measures like mortality and disease prevalence have been used to…
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News - A year ago, at the very beginning of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there was a lot of talk about the consequences of social distancing, lockdown, and all the measures that were introduced. In the episode, The Brain Architects, experts Dr. Archana Basu and Dr…
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News - For children to become functioning, useful members of society they need to have a healthy motivation system. Early experiences and inherited genes work together to form the brain and behaviour, so it is important that children have life…
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Event - According to The Digital Marketing Institute, The NSPCC and Ofcom (UK) reports 6 in 10 teens trust influencers more than traditional celebrities and more than 74% of 8–15-year-olds using YouTube with 40% of their YouTube content deriving from bloggers.
As…
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News - According to Albert Bandura's social learning theory, people learn by observing and imitating the behaviors modeled by those around them, and children, in particular, learn attitudes, values, and behaviors from their parents as their primary models. Recently, a team of…
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News - "Blackpool Council outlines their therapeutic focus on preparing young people with the skills to be able to commit to life within a family unit."
Jack will be spending his next few weeks at a newly launched therapeutic care centre to overcome his…
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News - A pilot project in Worcester showed positive results in supporting children’s early education and reducing racial inequities. The project called “Building Resilient Children” involved family, children, and educators. They focused on child care centers mainly to reach out to…
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News - Thuy Ly-Chambers is a care-leaver, a person who lived with a foster family for most of her childhood. She acknowledges the support and help from the part of her foster family and the government, which encouraged her to be successful in life. Her foster family was Jamaican…
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News - "Resilience is considered a protective tool that supports individuals when faced with challenges." Sergey Nivens.
To empower teachers to enrich student learning, lecturer and CEO Dr Sarah Tillott, along with her colleagues, are exploring…
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News - The beginning of September marks a very important moment in our lives, mainly because children restart school after months in quarantine. While a lot of parents in the United Kingdom - and not only - are still working from home, their kids are being sent to school with more…
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Multimedia - It was a groundbreaking and very disturbing moment when Sigmund Freud announced in his theory that the root of all emotional disturbances in adulthood was to be found in trauma (sexual) during early periods of childhood. Although his emphasis on sexuality has been…
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Online library - This study about violent extremism focuses mainly on young adults and their key drivers, influences and pathways. These children tend to have a biological tendency towards risk-taking and can be…
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News - A new book called ‘Susie the Childminder and the Pandemic’ has been launched by Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service to teach children how to keep themselves safe, positive and healthy during a pandemic by showing how the Susie and the children are facing difficulties and…
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News - CommunityCare conducted set of interviews with the frontline safeguarding team in Taunton, that is Somerset Country Council, turning it into a genuine article story of a real progress in the field of Children`s Services.
Following a detailed…
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News - It's no secret that young people in Ukraine are one of the most vulnerable groups on the labor market. The changing socio-economic situation in the east of the country requires the adaptation of the professional lyceums in order to educate …
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Online library - The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNODRR) has just realised Words into Action guidelines giving advice on how to effectively implement the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR) 2015 – 2030. …
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News - Our society encounters one of its biggest challenges. Coronavirus caused many difficulties all around the world. From all the positive cases and deaths to the lack of test, effective equipment and vaccine; people are scared and anxious.
So, what is one thing that can ease…
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News - Mark Bertin addressed the pressing question, How to stay healthy and emotionally resilient in a time of widespread unease in Psychology Today this week. Taking into consideration that most of our routines have been recently and radically disturbed, the…
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News - Young school students having certain mental cases refuse to receive help from their peers. Referring to “Peer Support for Mental Health and Wellbeing Pilots", young people are showing more interest in the position of a peer mentor.
An initiative was taken…
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Online library - Research evaluating the delivery of pilots, which tested peer support for mental health and wellbeing in schools, colleges and children and young people’s community organisations, between October 2017 and July 2019 in UK.
The main findings from the evaluation are…
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News - There is a global crisis in the mental health of young people. In the UK, as many as one in eight young people suffer from a diagnosable mental illness, with worrying increases in self-harming, depression and anxiety among teenage girls.
Resilience is the ability to remain…
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News - Research in Practice and Professor Gail Kinman and Dr. Louise Grant (University of Bedfordshire) have published their latest work “The SWORD Change Project”. This project aims to provide social work leaders and supervisors with an accessible, research-informed…
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There is much debate on the impact of technology, and in particular, social media on children. Intergovernmental organisations, including the UN and the Council of Europe, are in midst of determining guidelines on children's rights in relation to the digital environment.…
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News - As virtual reality (VR) is something that is increasingly used, 'The Children's Society' wanted to see if it can help young people.
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Practitioners in Birmingham told the Society how young people struggle to talk about anxiety. However,…
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Online library - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In a rapidly urbanising world, the number of children living in informal settlements in urban areas is growing. The life that these children face can be characterised by chronic insecurity and precarious living conditions. But…
