Supporting Parents During Unprecedented Times: Evidence-Based Ways to Build Resiliency
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Strong Minds Strong Kids, Psychology Canada presents "Supporting Parents During Unprecedented Times: Evidence-Based Ways to Build Resiliency”
We have all been on the frontline throughout the pandemic, dealing with the exponential effects of stress in children, colleagues, and ourselves. Ironically, stress is a good thing for building resilience. However, the pandemic has absolutely proven the age-old saying that too much of a good thing is bad! While many products and services aim to reduce and manage stress, without cognitive and behavioural tools to build everyday resilience, these products are unlikely to succeed.
Research with both adults and children have shown that the pandemic has brought on higher levels of anxiety and depression symptoms across the board. The hardships of the pandemic have tested and are continuing to test the mental health of children and adults in generation defining ways. Parents have been on the front line of facing the exponential ripple effects of stress in children, colleagues, and themselves. Science has provided some amazing ways that have been proven to support individuals managing the unmanageable.
Join Dr. Pillai Riddell in an engaging introduction to some quick, evidence-based hacks that can help you cope with stress and build resiliency.
Date: May 26th, 2023
Time: 12 pm -1 pm EDT
Expert Panelist: Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell
Dr. Pillai Riddell is the Director of the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt Laboratory or The OUCH Lab (www.yorku.ca/ouchlab) at York University, Canada. She also is an advisory board member of the Sick Kids Pain Centre, the Sick Kids Infant Mental Health Promotion Program and the Strong Minds Strong Kids, Psychology Canada organization (formerly known as the Psychology Foundation of Canada). As both a basic behavioural scientist and a clinical psychologist, Dr. Pillai Riddell leads a world-renown research program in infant and young child pain that seeks to understand pain from psychological, social and a biological perspective. Among her award-winning research accomplishments, she built the largest cohort in the world studying young child and parent interactions in vaccinations over the first five years of life. Her research often focuses on the power of parents to make vaccinations less painful now and in the future for young children. The OUCH lab’s new direction seeks to innovate an artificial intelligence solution to infant pain assessment in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Pillai Riddell is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, the 2019 American Pain Society’s Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children’s Pain winner, and recipient of Canadian Pain Society’s 2020 Outstanding Mentorship Award.