Research Snippets

What qualities do resilient people have?

  • prosocial orientation
  • stong interpersonal skills
  • committment to school or work

Across studies of resiliency, what is the most common finding that differentiates resilient children and youth from those who are struggling?

  • a relationship with a supportive adult

Program Delivery

After carefully designing workshops of varying lengths, these programs are delivered to various groups of people with the goal of increasing skills and knowledge. In turn, as most of the workshops are conducted with adults who have a stake in child development, these individuals can then apply learning to their direct practice. Examples of workshops include.

  • Fostering social-emotional competence in children (3 day workshop for school personnel and clinicians)
  • Attachment and resiliency in clinical practice
  • Program evaluation for program enhancement

Upcoming Workshops

TBA

Recent Publications

Promoting Social Justice Through Building Healthy Relationships: Evaluation of SWOVA's "Respectful Relationships" program (Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, November, 2010)

The Power of Connection (Verlag Press, 2009)

Words to Ponder

"If we think about it, save for the vagaries of birth, errant biology, class and status, or simply circumstance, we are all but a half step away from the ‘other’ families we describe as in need of service or ‘at risk.’ In the final analysis, it is not ‘us’ and ‘them.’ It is all of us. Together"

Irish economist, T. K. Whittaker (1997)