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SMACast episodes

  • Showing up for Your Teen with tips from Motivational Interviewing

    Jason Anderson is an independent consultant with an expertise in Motivational Interviewing (among other things) and it was so much fun to learn from him about how tools that used in Motivational Interviewing can be applied to having curious and positive conversations with your teen, even about hard things! For more info Jason recommends the book Motivational Interviewing, by W. Miller & S. Rollnick and you can find Jason at www.thejasonanderson.com

    1 hr 6 min
  • Where's My Handbook: Teens and Grief and Loss

    We are talking with Georgeann Lewis, an adjustment counselor at Stoughton High School about the ways that teens experience grief and loss, not just around death, but all sorts of transitions. Georgeann shares tips on helping your teen manage loss and to identify when the ways that teens manage lass are not healthy and could use more support.

    48 min
  • Where's My Handbook: Parenting can be a Positive Adult Experience

    To kick off season 2, we welcome Carla Ritz, the Managing Director of the Montana Institute to talk about we kind find and nurture our own positive adult experiences as we journey through the teen years a second time, this time as a parent. Carla shared some incredible wisodom, stories and research that we know you will enjoy! You can find Carla at The Montana Institute, www.montanainstitute.com Here are some references to the research that she referenced:

    Crandall A, Magnusson BM, Barlow MJ, Randall H, Policky AL, & Hanson CL. “Positive adult experiences as turning points for better adult mental health after childhood adversity.” Frontiers in Public Health, 11 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1223953
     
    Crandall A, Castaneda GL, Barlow MJ, Magnusson BM. 2024. Do Positive Childhood and Adult Experiences Counter the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Learned Helplessness. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
     
    Cheung, R. Y. M., Leung, M. C., Chiu, H. T., Kwan, J. L. Y., Yee, L. T. S., & Hou, W. K. (2019). Family functioning and psychological outcomes in emerging adulthood: Savoring positive experiences as a mediating mechanism. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36(9), 2693–2713. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407518798499
     
    Borghuis, J., Denissen, J. J. A., Sijtsma, K., Branje, S., Meeus, W. H. J., & Bleidorn, W. (2018). Positive Daily Experiences Are Associated with Personality Trait Changes in Middle–Aged Mothers. European Journal of Personality, 32(6), 672–689. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2178
     
    Schwaba, T., Robins, R. W., Sanghavi, P. H., & Bleidorn, W. (2019). Optimism Development Across Adulthood and Associations With Positive and Negative Life Events. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(8), 1092–1101. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619832023
     
    Chiang, J.j., Chen, E., & Miller, G.E. (2018). Midlife self-reported social support as a buffer against premature mortality risks associated with child abuse. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 261-268 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0316-5
     
    Book:
    David Brooks’ book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

    1 hr 7 min

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