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  • VIDEO

    InBrief: Early Childhood Mental Health


    Science tells us that the foundations of sound mental health are built early in life. Early experiences—including children’s relationships with parents, caregivers, relatives, teachers, and peers—interact with genes to shape the architecture of the developing brain. Disruptions in this developmental process can impair a child’s capacities for learning and relating to others, with lifelong implications.

    This edition of the InBrief series explains how improving children’s environments of relationships and experiences early in life can prevent initial difficulties from destabilizing later development and mental health.

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  • NEW VIDEOS

    InBrief: Resilience Series


    What Is Resilience? The Science of Resilience How Resilience Is Built

    Reducing the effects of significant adversity on young children’s healthy development is critical to the progress and prosperity of any society. The science of resilience can help us understand why some children do well despite serious adversity. These three videos provide an overview of why resilience matters, how it develops, and how to strengthen it in children.

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  • VIDEO

    Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change


    This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and families. It describes the need to focus on building the capabilities of caregivers and strengthening the communities that together form the environment of relationships essential to children's lifelong learning, health, and behavior.

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Publications
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    WORKING PAPER

    Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience


    Decades of research in the behavioral and social sciences have produced substantial evidence that children who do well despite serious hardship have had at least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive parent, caregiver, or other adult. This Working Paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child explains how protective factors in the social environment and highly responsive biological systems interact to produce resilience, or the ability to adapt in the face of significant adversity.

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  • ACTIVITIES GUIDE

    Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence


    Executive function and self-regulation (EF/SR) skills provide critical supports for learning and development, and while we aren’t born with these skills, we are born with the potential to develop them through interactions and practice.

    This 16-page guide describes a variety of activities and games that represent age-appropriate ways for adults to support and strengthen various components of EF/SR in children. Each chapter of this guide contains activities suitable for a different age group, from infants to teenagers.

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  • InBrief - Early Childhood Mental Health

    BRIEF

    InBrief: Early Childhood Mental Health


    The science of child development shows that the foundation for sound mental health is built early in life, as early experiences—which include children’s relationships with parents, caregivers, relatives, teachers, and peers—shape the architecture of the developing brain. This two-page summary explains how experiences interact with genetic predispositions to shape an enduring foundation for mental health in early childhood and how interventions can treat or prevent disruptions with lifelong implications for learning, behavior, and health.

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Stories from the Field
     
  • FIND: Using Science to Coach Caregivers

    INNOVATION IN ACTION

    FIND: Using Science to Coach Caregivers


    At Children’s Home Society of Washington, social service providers are using video clips of parents interacting with their young children to help the parents identify their own strengths and learn which interactions best promote healthy development. Created in partnership with researchers at the University of Oregon and Oregon Social Learning Center, this intervention supports positive interactions in young families facing adversity and models an innovative co-creation and testing process for new science-based strategies. View this video >>

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  • TACKLING TOXIC STRESS

    Pushing Toward Breakthroughs: Using Innovative Practice to Address Toxic Stress


    This installment of the multi-part series “Tackling Toxic Stress” describes how a small but growing group of forward-thinking social service practitioners are using the expanding scientific evidence about the long-term, damaging effects of toxic stress to try innovative approaches that target its root causes and could lead to breakthroughs in the effectiveness of interventions—for both children and their caregivers. Read this installment in the series >>

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