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The Real Reason Your Teen is Impatient (and How You Can Help)
Leanne Bishara shares 4 research-backed ways parents and teens can face difficulties with patience.
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Grief and Mindfulness: How to Manage Your Emotions
Dr. Joey Fung discusses the myths of grief, offering 3 ways mindfulness can help us manage our emotions during times of grief.
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A Practice: Embracing Self-Compassion During Times of Grief
Guest blogger, Stephanie Trudeau talks collective loss and how we can approach our feelings with compassion and grace.
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Activities for Busting the Blues
Dr. Susan Mangan shares activities that help build resilience and beat the blues.
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Practices to Boost Positive Emotions at Home
Dr. Susan Mangan provides 3 at-home exercises that can increase our positive emotions during times of difficulty.
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Changing Our Focus from Surviving to Thriving
Dr. Pamela King reflects on the importance of contemplative practices as the key to thriving during difficulty.
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Aspire to Inspire: Learning the Mamba Mentality for Every Day Greatness
Dr. Stephanie Trudeau breaks down the Mamba Mentality framework and offers tips for how to integrate it into our own lives.
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Crucibles of transformation: Religious service and emerging adults
Citation King, P. E., & Merola, C. M. (2017). Crucibles of transformation: Religious service and emerging adults. In L. M. Padilla-Walker & L. J. Nelson (Eds.), Flourishing in emerging adulthood: Positive development during the third decade of life (pp. 330–362). Oxford University Press. Abstract In the following chapter, participation in both structured and unstructured forms of religious service is presented as a crucible of transformation. Although most emerging adults are involved in exploratory activities, perhaps such experiences are not all as developmentally and socially productive as others. Based on the match between the developmental tasks of emerging adulthood and the...
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9 Principles of Effective Youth Service Organization
Research by the Thrive Center explores 9 principles that youth organizations can practice to effectively support and help youth thrive.
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What My Parents Did Right (When It Came to Sports)
A student researcher shares the integral role his parents played in fostering positive youth development through sports.
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Religious Involvement
Citation Clardy, C. E., & King, P. E. (2011). Religious Involvement. In B. Brown & M. Prinstein (Eds.), Encyclopedia of adolescence. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press. Copyright Year: 2011 Holder: Elsevier Inc. DOI: https://shop.elsevier.com/books/encyclopedia-of-adolescence/brown/978-0-12-373915-5#full-description…
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