Child Development provided by Harvard University

Well unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get in contact with my persons.

Visiting the center of Child Development provided by Harvard University has tons of important facts. Their mission statement is:

“The mission of the Center on the Developing Child is to drive science-based innovation that achieves breakthrough outcomes for children facing adversity”.

 

Listed below are three videos that I watched to see what the different programs had to offer and the description came from the website about the programs.

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.

This is a good way to keep parents and children connected with interactions. Sometimes children become to grown and don’t want to interact with their parents but if these resources are put out there for the children, they would possible have a different outlook on interacting with their parents.

InBrief: Resilience Series

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.

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.

When we see the work Stress we often times run from it. But this video shows effective ways of interventions/breakthroughs. When we are children or parents are going through different things, a breakthrough is sometimes needed. But while going through that breakthrough we must know how to conduct ourselves as well as the situation.

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children's initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/