Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development
This video is part three of a three-part series titled “Three Core Concepts in Early Development” from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
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What Is Resilience?
This video, from a 3-part series about resilience, provides an overview of “Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience,” a working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
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Breakthrough Research on Building Better Brains
Presentation from Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Director of Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child. An Arthur M. Blank Foundation Speaker Series event.
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Early Life Stress Research Program
Presentation from Dr. Victor Carrion, MD. Part of PBS NewsHour series.
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Inside Resilient Children
Presentation from Dr. Ann Masten about resiliency and children. From PopTech.
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Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks
Presentation from Tiffany Shlain and The Moxie Institute Films.
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Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope
Presentation from KPJR Films. Official Selection at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
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Caring For Children Who Have Experienced Trauma
Children’s responses to witnessing violence and experiencing traumatic stress most often include intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
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The Impact of Early Adversity on Children's Development
This brief discusses how what happens in early childhood can matter for a lifetime, and how it is important to recognize and address problems before they get worse.
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How Does Domestic Violence Affect Children?
One of the essential ingredients for resilience is a secure relationship between the child and a caring adult who loves them, believes in them, sees them as special, and celebrates their accomplishments.
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Ordinary Magic: Lessons From Research on Resilience in Human Development
This article highlights lessons about resilience for promoting positive development among children exposed to high levels of risk or adversity.
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The Learning Center: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
This NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma offers free online education.
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Violence And Violence Prevention
The American Psychological Association (APA) provides resources for what you can do to help when you recognize the signs of violence.
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The Resilience Project
The American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) provides resources for pediatricians and medical home teams to identify and care for children and adolescents who have been exposed to violence.
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Connect For Respect - Bullying
Connect for Respect (C4R) is a National PTA initiative to help students, parents and educators create school climates full of safe and supportive peer relationships.
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ACEs Connection Network
This site is a social network that works to prevent ACEs, heal trauma, and build resilience.
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Bully Free: It Starts With Me
This site, from the National Education Association (NEA), provides resources and tools on how to identify bullying, how to intervene, and how to be an advocate for bullied students.
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Helping Traumatized Children Learn
This report proposes an educational agenda that will enable schools to become supportive environments in which traumatized children can focus, behave appropriately, and learn.
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
This CDC study highlights resources for preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) linked to risky health behaviors, chronic health conditions, low life potential, and early death.
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Central Effects of Stress Hormones in Health and Disease
This article focuses on providing an understanding of the protective and damaging effects of stress and stress mediators.
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Toxic Stress
This presents key concepts about toxic stress and its damaging effects on learning, behavior, and health across the lifespan. From the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
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Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain
This working paper defines the concept of “toxic stress”—what happens when children experience severe, prolonged adversity without adult support. From the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
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Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience
This working paper explains how protective factors in a child’s social environment and body interact to produce resilience, and discusses strategies that promote healthy development in the face of trauma.
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