May 12, 2014

Essentials for Childhood: Promoting Healthy Outcomes From Positive Experiences.

May 12, 2014/ The Montana Institute

I am excited to let you know about a new article I co-authored with Dr. Robert Sege titled "Essentials for Childhood: Promoting Healthy Outcomes From Positive Experiences." The article appears in the Pediatrics, the Official Journal Of The American Academy Of Pediatrics, and focuses on the Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Creating Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships (SSNRs), a strategy designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "to promote the development of family environments in which children thrive." Dr. Sege and I served on a working group that advised the CDC on the SSNRs, and "the take-home lesson for physicians is simple yet profound: Health outcomes from positive experiences may be just as important as toxic outcomes from adverse experiences." There are a variety of ways to access the article at the above link and I hope you will take a look. I also hope you will let me know what you think in the Comments section below.

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Through The Montana Institute, Dr. Jeff Linkenbach and his team provide executive coaching, organizational consulting, and transformative leadership development based upon the Science of the Positive. TMI also provides training and capacity building on the Positive Community Norms, an approach to improving health health and safety based on the Science of the Positive. Join us at one of our PCN Trainings or at the Montana Summer Institute in Big Sky.