Pathways to Child Flourishing
September 27-30, 2014
University of Notre Dame
Conference Center
Nourishing Families, Flourishing Children (Saturday, September 27)
A day focused on practice and targeted at families and practitioners
Contexts for Development and Child Flourishing (September 28-30)
A symposium targeted at those interested in research and theory
An Interdisciplinary Symposium bringing together neurobiology, developmental and clinical psychology, anthropology, prevention and education
Early life experience has long term effects on wellbeing but contexts for childrearing have shifted away from the evolved developmental niche that promote child flourishing. An interdisciplinary et of speakers address these contexts and how to improve child wellbeing.
See draft schedule below (and at official website).
Check out official website for registration and information about prior symposia (2010, 2012), including videos, powerpoints, and accompanying volumes.
Notre Dame Sponsors: Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Henkels Lecture Series, Department of Psychology, Center for Children and Families
Co-Sponsor: Attachment Parenting International
Conference organizer: Darcia Narvaez, dnarvaez@nd.edu
If you would like to present a poster, contact Dr. Narvaez.
DRAFT SCHEDULE
SUNDAY, September 28, 2014
100-130 Welcome and introduction, Darcia Narvaez
130-230 The Biology of Trauma and Recovery
230-330 pm Parenting, Attachment, and the Development of Emotion Regulation
330-430 Culture, Community and Context in Child Development
430-530 How Early Life Builds Cognition and Emotional Intelligence
530-7 WELCOME RECEPTION, POSTERS
7 pm The Parental Brain – Regulation of Mother and Father Behavior that Influences Infant Development
8 pm Societal Contexts for Family Relations: Tradition, Violence and Stress
MONDAY, September 29, 2014
830-930 The Benefits of Marital Conflict: Constructiveness and Resolution as Predictors of Positive Child Outcomes
930-1030 The role of human milk in child development: short and long term lactational programming
1030-1130 The co-development of parenting and temperament
1130-1230 Preserving Child Flourishing after Exposure to Trauma: Women’s Perceptions of the Adequacy of Community Supports
1230-130 LUNCH
130-230 Becoming an older sibling: cooperative caregiving and conflict among young children in Central Africa
230-330 What Kin Counts? Child Growth & Development in Jamaica
330-430 Risk and Protective Influences on At-Risk Children’s Development and Well-Being
430-500 DISCUSSION
530 Arranged dinner
7:30 Learning To Trust: Applying Attachment Theory to the Elementary School Classroom
TUESDAY, September 30, 2014
830-930 Synchrony: A Neurobiological Attribute of the Social Human
930-1030 The Circle of Attachments and the Importance of Play
1030-1130 The Socioendocrinology of Parenthood: Evolution, Culture, and Development by Lee Gettler
1130-1230 [Title]
1230-130 LUNCH
130-230 The Emergence of “Positive Parenting” as a New Paradigm: Theory, Processes, Assumptions, and Evidence
230-330 Interventions that Support Families and Children
330-4 DISCUSSION