Library Guides: Social Service Worker: Resiliency and Trauma

Resiliency and Trauma

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Educational resource database. Contains full text articles from journals, research and conference papers, technical reports, curriculum guides and dissertations.

Co-Creating Desired Outcomes and Strengthening the Resilience of Multi-Challenged Families
The presence of a social worker who persists with a joint project even in the case of failure represents an important new experience for families. Although multi-challenged families are resilient, they sometimes need an interlocutor to help them recognize and strengthen that resilience.
Families as Partners : Supporting Family Resiliency Through Early Intervention
Child development occurs within the context of the child's family, neighborhood, and community environment. Early childhood providers support positive outcomes, not only for the children with whom they directly work with but also for their families.

TED Talks: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development
A playlist of videos from the Reaching Teens series.