MEDIA
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Adapting the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACH™) approach for broader availability
An App to Promote Healthy Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Mental Health and Development
ATTACH™ is an evidence-based, psychoeducational parenting program designed to help parents affected by adversity, such as family violence, depression and low-income, promote the mental health and development of their preschool-aged children. The Harvard Center on the Developing Child named ATTACH™ a prestigious Frontiers of Innovation project. ATTACH™ was singled out for its ground-breaking impacts on children’s mental health and development by building parents’ reflective function (i.e. insight into their own and their children’s thoughts and feelings). ATTACH™ also improves children’s attachment security and children’s immune cell gene expression linked to inflammation.
Better access to mental health care may be the silver lining of COVID-19
Read the article on The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-better-access-to-mental-health-care-may-be-the-silver-lining-of-covid/
Mar 31, 2022
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April 4, 2022
Opinion Editorials
2022 Letourneau, N. Mental health is a key component of a new Indigenous child welfare system. Ottawa Citizen, January 13 (1).
The Protective Effects of a Parenting Intervention on Mother-Child Immune Cell Gene Expression: ATTACH™ Randomized Control Trial
By Harleen Sanghera
Dr. Nicole Letourneau on Parenting
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Date: November 21, 2018
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Date: August 26th, 2018
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Dr. Martha Hart being featured on CTV Calgary
Helping children traumatized by domestic violence by teaching children to acknowledge their feelings
Date: November 1st, 2018