
Roadmap to Resilience
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Join experts in the field of child stress and trauma as they delve into research-based strategies for building resilience in children of all ages. Your hosts, Dr. Julian Ford and Dr. Amanda Zelechoski, along with guest experts explore how children and families successfully face and overcome adversity, and how helping professionals can support and empower this resilience. Together, they'll paint a holistic picture of what a roadmap to resilience can look like for children experiencing stress and trauma.
Dr. Ford and Dr. Zelechoski bring decades of experience as psychologists and researchers to make these strategies available for all who care for children. Whether you’re a mental health provider, parent, lawyer, social worker, or caregiver, you can use these tools to help the children you support step from difficulty into strength.
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13. How Lawyers and the Legal System Can Foster Resilience
Roadmap to Resilience
11/17/21 • 32 min
In this episode, we’re focusing on the experiences of youth before, during, and after their interactions with the legal system. We’ll hear from trauma-focused behavioral healthcare professionals who have worked extensively with the legal system: with judges, lawyers, justice-involved youth, and their families. We’ll also hear from a lawyer and a community organizer and their work to reduce and prevent trauma in justice-involved youth.
Learn more about our guest experts on this episode:
Explore resources mentioned in this episode:
Psychosocial Interventions for Traumatized Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Research, Evidence Base, and Clinical/Legal Challenges (Journal of Juvenile Justices)
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ)
Essential Elements of a Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice System(The National Child Traumatic Stress Network)
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17. Trauma and Resilience: How the Helpers Help Themselves
Roadmap to Resilience
11/17/21 • 34 min
During safety overviews before a flight, we’re instructed to put on our own oxygen masks first before assisting others. In the same way, as professionals and parents, we have to take care of ourselves before we can continue to care for the children in our lives. To close out this audio series, we’ll hear from several guest experts on what they do to support their own well-being as trauma-care providers.
Learn more about our guest experts on this episode:
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15. How Communities Can Foster Resilience
Roadmap to Resilience
11/17/21 • 30 min
Communities and collective action are vitally important in maintaining and strengthening our mental health and resilience. In this episode, we hear from several experts on the essential role communities play in fostering resilience in children who experience stress and trauma.
Learn more about our guest experts on this episode:
Explore resources mentioned in this episode:
Brody, G., Yu, T., Chen, E., Miller, G., Kogan, S., & Beach, S. (2013). Is resilience only skin deep? Rural African Americans’ socio- economic status-related risk and competence in preadolescence and psychological adjustment and allostatic load at age 19. Psychological Science, 24(7), 1285–1293.

14. How Parents Can Foster Resilience
Roadmap to Resilience
11/17/21 • 34 min
As a parent, supporting your child day-in and day-out is a lot of work -- especially if your child has experienced or is experiencing stress and trauma. Our guest experts speak to the big and small ways parents and caregivers can help foster resilience in children.
Learn more about our guest experts on this episode:
Explore resources mentioned in this episode:
Trauma & Resilience Resources (Pandemic Parenting)

12. How Clinical Training Programs Can Foster Resilience
Roadmap to Resilience
11/17/21 • 54 min
In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at clinical training programs for healthcare professionals in many fields: how to make the training more trauma-informed, and how students can best navigate those programs if they’re interested in providing trauma-informed care.
Learn more about our guest experts on this episode:
Explore resources mentioned in this episode:
NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma
APSAC: American Professional Society Abuse Children
ISTSS: International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
ISSTD: International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation
APA: American Psychological Association - Trauma Psychology (Division 56)
NCTSN Learn: Identifying Critical Moments and Healing Complex Trauma
“Trauma-Informed Care” (Pediatrics, The American Academy of Pediatrics)
Academy on Violence and Abuse (avahealth.org)

11. How Healthcare Providers Can Foster Resilience
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11/17/21 • 38 min
Three healthcare experts weigh in on how healthcare providers, including pediatric, family medicine, nursing, and other medical and allied health professionals, can practice and implement trauma-informed healthcare on an individual and systemic level.
Learn more about our guest experts on this episode:
Explore resources mentioned in this episode:
The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics
Academy on Violence and Abuse (avahealth.org)

10. How Mental Health Providers Can Foster Resilience
Roadmap to Resilience
11/17/21 • 36 min
Now that we’ve examined key concepts to understand the many ways that children experience trauma -- and the many ways that they and their families are resilient, it’s time to get a bit more practical. How can we as mental health providers help foster resilience in children? Plus, hear from trauma-care providers what you can expect if you’re looking for trauma-informed therapy for yourself or your child.
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9. Understanding the Impact of Global and Collective Traumas
Roadmap to Resilience
11/17/21 • 47 min
We can’t protect children and support their resilience if we overlook the traumas that are embedded in the fabric of their communities and society. In this episode, we speak to several guest experts about how global and collective traumas such as racism, war, community violence, and pandemics impact children.
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8. Working with Trauma in Cross-Cultural and Immigration Contexts
Roadmap to Resilience
11/17/21 • 46 min
No child exists in a vacuum. And the stress or trauma they experience doesn’t either. All of our individual behaviors, mindsets, and experiences are intertwined with our cultural contexts -- that is, the customs, language, geography, politics, and beliefs that shape our lived experiences. In this episode, you’ll hear from several guest experts who speak to the importance of recognizing cultural influences such as mental health stigmas, faith and spirituality, and country of origin when providing trauma-informed care.
Learn more about our guest experts on this episode:
Explore resources mentioned in this episode:
Brody, G., Yu, T., Chen, E., Miller, G., Kogan, S., & Beach, S. (2013). Is resilience only skin deep? Rural African Americans’ socio- economic status-related risk and competence in preadolescence and psychological adjustment and allostatic load at age 19. Psychological Science, 24(7), 1285–1293.
Miller, G., Yu, T., Chen, E., & Brody, G. (2015). Self-control forecasts better psychosocial outcomes but faster epigenetic aging in low-SES youth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(33), 10325 – 10330.

7. Supporting Children in the Aftermath of Intimate Partner Homicide
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11/17/21 • 34 min
According to data from U.S. crime reports, about 1 in 5 homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner, whether that’s a current or former spouse or dating partner. In the wake of these tragic deaths are the victims’ loved ones -- including children. Dr. Bianca Harper shares her expertise in supporting these child and adolescent survivors of intimate partner homicide.
Learn more about our guest expert on this episode: Dr. Bianca Harper
Explore resources mentioned in this episode:
Preventing Intimate Partner Violence - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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How many episodes does Roadmap to Resilience have?
Roadmap to Resilience currently has 17 episodes available.
What topics does Roadmap to Resilience cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine and Podcasts.
What is the average episode length on Roadmap to Resilience?
The average episode length on Roadmap to Resilience is 37 minutes.
When was the first episode of Roadmap to Resilience?
The first episode of Roadmap to Resilience was released on Nov 3, 2021.
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