Anna Hadingham, educator and theater artist working with the Apollinaire theater company, the Chelsea Collaborative, and Peronia Adolescente We all need to feel like we belong in a space where other people accept us, where our lives and identities matter. This story is adapted…
Dr. Moira Szilagyi, 2023 Immediate Past President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, academic pediatrician at UCLA, interim division chief of general pediatrics, and section chief of developmental behavioral pediatrics Resilience is dependent on the earliest relationships children have, because…
Brooke Adams, a first-generation college graduate with a master’s degree in social work and a passion for working with students from under-resourced communities I am now recognizing how much it mattered to me to have someone who really watched out…
This handout walks you through a 2019 publication by Dr. Christina Bethell and Dr. Robert Sege about the relationship between adverse/positive childhood experiences and adult mental health, providing an empirical foundation for the language of HOPE.
This study looked at flourishing, defined as: engagement, positive relationships, competence, positive emotion, and self esteem. The authors measured children’s interest and curiosity in learning new things, persistence in completing tasks, and capacity to regulate emotions, and found that 40.3%…
This opinion piece presents flourishing as a better metric for measuring health (compared to physical measures like blood pressure or life expectancy) because it takes multiple parts of a person’s life into account. The six domains of flourishing are: happiness…
This article describes 5 modifiable resilience factors to improve children’s long- and short-term health: fostering positive appraisal styles in children and bolstering executive function improving parenting supporting maternal mental health teaching parents the importance of good self care skills and…
How does one build hope in resilience in a child? Michael has over 20 years’ experience working with children and families and has worked with Intermountain in Helena since October 2000. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Puget Sound…
