A full day workshop will examine current research and best practices that strengthen youth resiliency and young people's ability to manage mental health issues.

1. Resilience in Youth Jean M Clinton B.Mus MD FRCP(C) McMaster University and Children’s Hospital Offord Centre for Child Studies

5. Adolescents: Why DO they do the things they do?

8. 03-013 The Hostage Brain , Bruce S. McEwen and Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., 1994. THE BRAIN FAIRY

11. Diamond & Hopson, 1998 “ The nerve cell, or neuron resembles a miniature tree…” (p. 21 )

12. SYNAPSE

17. Frontal Lobes for Behavioral Control, Birth - 21 Age

18. The Brain Bonsai Overproduction and Exuberance Pruning

19. The Fear Response: Fight or Flight and Stress Visual Cortex Visual Thalamus Amygdala Scientific American The Hidden Mind, 2002, Volume 12, Number 1

20. Amygdala Hippocampus

21. 03-002 Emotional Stimulus PIT Cortisol Cortisol CRF ACTH Amygdala Hippocampus Adrenal Cortex Hypothalamus PVN + + - - LeDoux, Synaptic Self

22. Amygdala and Hippocampus

23. Anterior Cingulate Cortex

24. Limbic System for Birth - 21 Age Years

25. What emotion do you see? Deborah Yurgelun Todd McLean Hospital Belmont, Mass (2004)

29. ACC The “Oops Centre ”

30. The Cognitive Affective Balance Early Adolescence Early Adulthood Ideally! KEY: Not the overall balance that matters, it is the flexibility to shift when needed

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57. The Relational Landscape is Changing. Children have fewer social, cognitive and emotional interactions, with fewer people. The impact of “modern life” on the developing child has yet to be fully understood Dr Bruce Perry www.childtrauma.org

60. Two Shifts Beyond programs Relationships Second Shift to From fixing young people’s problems First Shift Promoting young people’s strengths to

64. Slides will be available at: www.ascy.ca www.offordcentre.com