Author: Michael Ungar

Dr. Ungar explores reals lives, across age and culture, and discovers that the answers lie in the people and the support systems around us.

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Author: Brene Brown

In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.

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Author: Alberta Family Wellness Initiative

Resources from leading experts on the science of early brain development and its connection to adult mental health, including addiction.

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Author: Linda Graham

Resilience is the learned capacity to cope with any level of adversity, from a series of small annoyances to the struggles and sorrows that break our hearts to the utter disasters that change our lives forever. More than 130 evidenced-based tools to help you cope with anything, anything at all.

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Author: Edith Chen, Greg Miller

Some individuals, despite facing recurrent, severe adversities in life such as low socioeconomic status (SES), are nonetheless able to maintain good physical health. This article explores why these individuals deviate from the expected association of low SES and poor health and outlines a “shift-and-persist” model to explain the psychobiological mechanisms involved.

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Author: Linda Graham

Resilience is our innate capacity to face and handle life’s challenges. Bouncing Back integrates brain science, relational psychology and mindfulness to help you change and develop new ways to respond to pressures and tragedies quickly, adaptively, and effectively.

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Author: Brené Brown

Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.

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Author: Albert Ellis

Cognitions, emotions, and behaviors almost always are not pure or disparate but significantly include each other and affect one another; combining into dysfunctional, demanding core Basic Philosophic Assumptions that lead to neurotic disturbances. Rational-emotive therapy (RET) tries to help many (not all) clients to make an elegant or profound philosophic change.

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Author: Michael Ungar

Provides detailed descriptions of techniques, ample case studies, fascinating and easy to understand explanations of research, and rich stories of how social workers, psychologists, counselors, child and youth care workers, and other mental health professionals can help young people become more resilient.

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Author: Dalhousie University

Innovative research that explores pathways to resilience across cultures.

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