This brief discusses healthy child development and how it is impacted by trauma. The brief also discusses how resilience and the presence of one or more "protective factors" such as social connections and knowledge of parenting and child development in "the family, community, and greater environment helps combat the negative outcomes of child abuse, neglect, and other types of trauma."
The Princeton-Brookings Future of Children organization just released its latest journal volume, themed Literacy Challenges for the Twenty-First Century.
Beginning in 1966, the late Fred Rogers delighted children, parents and educators in his TV neighborhood of make believe. We all assumed his “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” theme song would never be equaled. In this PBS production, talented audio engineers “auto-tuned” Mister Rogers and created a brand new song. Enjoy him with a whole new sound!
Professor Joyce Arditti at Virginia Tech talks about her research on parental incarceration and the transformative effect it had on her scholarship. Criminology has long been examined in the social sciences. However, Dr. Arditti has added a family lens to this area of study. Her ground-breaking research is now published in her new book on parental incarceration.
