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 Suniya Luthar on "Resilience"

Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:00 p.m.,
 New Trier High School, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Road, Northfield

Suniya Luthar is Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Director of Child & Family Research, the APT Foundation, New Haven. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical/Developmental Psychology from Yale University.

She was cited by Madeline Levine in The Price of Privilege for pioneering research exploring the relationship between economic success and emotional development.

Currently research by her group revolves around the constructs of resilience and positive youth development  conducted within a developmental psychopathology framework, (Luthar, 2003; Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000).  Core questions of interest are: What are the processes that help some children do well in spite of diverse stressors in their lives.  Across various spheres of development -psychological, emotional, interpersonal, and academic- how can children maximize their potentials and achieve competent, productive trajectories over time?  Currently, they are focused on two major programs of research.  The first involves middle- and high-school students from both wealthy and poor families, and the second involves children of mothers with major psychiatric illnesses

In addition to her evening presentation (co-sponsored with the Social Work Department of New Trier High School).  Suniya Luthar will be leading a day-long workshop on Friday, September 26 for the New Trier Community Response Program.  For information and reservation, contact Tom Golebiewski 847 784 2255.

Flyer (with child)  Flyer (with springsMap to location.

Faculty website with links to her research publications

Amazon link to her books

Video of interview (2005) with Suniya Luthar (Quicktime)

 

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