Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development


Site Title

Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development

(Offord Centre for Child Studies)

 

URL   

http://www.knowledge.offordcentre.com/

 

ED Related Page(s)

ED related articles and resources

http://www.knowledge.offordcentre.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=55:eating-disorders&Itemid=111

 

Parenting - The First “R”
Relationships - Connection is the Key

http://www.offordcentre.com/parenting/parent_study3.html

 

Publication Year

Site last updated March 2009

Content Description:

 

The Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development gives readers access to important and up-to-date information that is based on the best scientific research currently available.  It’s designed to sift through all the conflicting information about what promotes, and what hinders, healthy child development so better choices that will result in better outcomes for children can be made by parents and professionals.

The Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development was designed to focus on certain disorders, behaviour problems, and life circumstances that can have a significant impact on children’s health and well-being.

There is information on:

  • anger, aggression and bullying, conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety and depression., eating disorders, and substance abuse.
  • the role that parenting plays in fostering the healthy development of children, and what it means to grow up in a lone parent or low-income family or an environment of abuse or neglect.
  • how to distinguish mental health problems from normal development.
  • the impact of problems left untreated, such as poor school performance, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, and poor peer relationships in adolescence.

There are also book, DVD, and video listings about these problems shown at the end of each section.

 

 

ED related articles and resources on this site include:

 

1. A comparison of family based treatment and supportive psychotherapy in teenagers with Bulimia Nervosa

 

2. Internet-delivered intervention for changing body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in teenage girls

 

3. Treating teen anorexia with family therapy: Which method works best?

 

4. Effective treatments and long-term outcomes for people with eating disorders

 

 

Also on this site:

 

Parenting - The First “R”
Relationships - Connection is the Key

http://www.offordcentre.com/parenting/parent_study3.html

 

In this PowerPoint presentation, Dr. Jean Clinton demonstrates how our relationships with our children are a key factor in shaping their long-term health and well-being.

 

Audience

All - families, researchers, policy makers, mental health professionals

 

Language(s)

English

 

Author Affiliations

Founded in 1992 by child psychiatrist Dr. David “Dan” Offord, the Offord Centre for Child Studies is an internationally recognized research centre dedicated to increasing our knowledge of children’s emotional, social and cognitive problems and finding solutions that improve children’s mental health and their future life prospects.

 

The group is best known for its early work on the Ontario Child Health Study, an influential and internationally recognized study of the mental and physical health of more than 3,000 Ontario children aged 4 to 16.

 

It is affiliated with two world-class medical communities, McMaster Children’s Hospital and the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University.