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Brain Development Resource Library: Early brain development and its connection to adult mental health, including addiction.
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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8 August 2022
Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges
Author: Steven Southwick
Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges reveals how new research into the psychological, biological, and social impact of trauma can help us manage our own stressors and tragedies.
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6 August 2022
The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
Author: Valerie Young
Learn to take ownership of your success, overcome self-doubt, and banish the thought patterns that undermine your ability to feel—and act—as bright and capable as others already know you are with this award-winning book by Valerie Young.
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8 August 2022
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Author: Daniel Siegal
From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of “mindsight,” the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain–and in your life.
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Shift-and-Persist” Strategies: Why Low Socioeconomic Status Isn’t Always Bad for Health
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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6 August 2022
Brené Brown on Empathy
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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8 August 2022
Rewordify
Author: Rewordify
A ‘translating’ website that simplified murky, convoluted texts into plain language. This website can help students through tough passages, instructions, and all kinds of confusing written text.
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6 August 2022
Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being
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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8 August 2022
Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope.
Author: James Redford
As the new documentary Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness, prison time, and early death. Resilience chronicles the dawn of a movement that is determined to fight back.
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6 August 2022
What can you do about pandemic learning losses?
Author: Rebecaa Branstetter
Helpful centering of SEL (social emotional learning) in pandemic context. This is a rethink of “pandemic learning losses.”
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