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  • Encouraging Resilience
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    Encouraging Resilience

    ByDebbie Ausburn July 14, 2020

    One of the better trends in the last decade of caring for children is the recognition that children need to develop…

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    Mentoring or Grooming? What’s the Difference?

    ByDebbie Ausburn July 14, 2020

    Numerous mental health studies suggest that one of the best ways to help children develop resilience and recover…

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  • Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
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    Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences

    ByDebbie Ausburn July 14, 2020

    One of the most active areas of mental health studies these days is the effect of adverse childhood experience…

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  • Foster, Adoptive, & Blended Families Resilience

    Which Comes First, Resilience or Self-Esteem?

    ByDebbie Ausburn July 14, 2020

    A pattern that shows up very often in studies of resilience is a high correlation between resilience and self-esteem…

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  • Countering Adverse Childhood Experiences
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    Countering Adverse Childhood Experiences

    ByDebbie Ausburn July 14, 2020

    In my last post, I discussed the 20+ years of research on the possible effects of adverse childhood experiences…

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  • Foster, Adoptive, & Blended Families Resilience

    Is It Bullying or Just Conflict?

    ByDebbie Ausburn July 14, 2020

    Bullying issues get a lot of attention these days, because everyone wants to spare children the trauma of true bullying…

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  • Building Family Resilience
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    Building Family Resilience

    ByDebbie Ausburn July 14, 2020

    One topic that I have been pondering lately is how families manage adversity and teach their children to be resilient…

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  • Resilience Requires Unsupervised Time
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    Resilience Requires Unsupervised Time

    ByDebbie Ausburn July 14, 2020

    One of the most important, and difficult, ways that we can encourage resilience in children is to allow them…

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