November 12, 2020
Talk to any parent and they will tell you that on the fly problem-solving, multi-tasking and stopping what you are doing and shifting focus on a dime, and keeping lists of things in mind while navigating your day is a core part of parenting. These skills reflect executive functions and while we have often looked…
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Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Parenting Intervention: Training for Addiction Counsellors and Pilot Implementation Funding Success! This fall members of our Healthy Mothers Health Families Research team won Ryerson’s Innovation Circle Discovery prize. We received $70,000 to train counsellors in maternal substance use treatment programs in a parenting intervention called Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) and…
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Integra Mindfulness Martial Arts (R), commonly known as Integra MMA or MMA is a 20-week transdiagnostic group treatment for adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) and mental health problems (MH) developed by the Integra Program at the Child Development Institute. Adolescents with a broad range of mental health disorders (e.g., ADHD, anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder) and…
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