Mental Health Education

2010 - Present

When teachers, therapists, or parents use these simple words to begin the Alert Program®, they enter an exciting adventure with children. The journey unfolds easily with the Alert Program®'s clearly defined steps for teaching self-regulation awareness.

The Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative has been established first and foremost to help parents and educators ‘reframe’ a child’s behavior: to understand the reasons why a child might be having trouble...

There is a growing awareness among developmental scientists that the better a child can self-regulate, the better she can rise to the challenge of mastering ever more complex skills and concepts...

The Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative (“MEHRI”) was established in 2005 to serve two mandates. The first was to study the effectiveness of a parent-based relational intervention, for children with autism, inspired by the DIR method created by Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder. The second was then to ‘scale up’ these findings so that broader general interventions could be delivered, to the benefit of all children, in schools.

What I.Q. was to the 20th century, self-regulation will be to the 21st. That's the prediction of psychologist and philosopher, Dr. Stuart Shanker. For decades he's been teaching kids how to self-regulate, so tantrums, meltdowns and lack of focus diminish - an ever more important skill today as childhood anxiety appears to be on the rise. IDEAS producer Mary O'Connell explores this terrain with Dr. Shanker and a mother who had serious struggles with her own son.

An annotated bibliography of studies of mindfulness in education.