Where Parents Talk podcast host Lianne Castelino speaks to Dr. Michael Ungar, family therapist, resilience researcher and author about resilience and its limits.
DR. MICHAEL UNGAR
Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience
Family Therapist
Director, Resilience Research Centre, Dalhousie University
Author
Father of 5
“…we occasionally need our children to actually fail and integrate that learning, especially when we’re available to scaffold the experience and build them up again with the skill set they need to overcome the problem. So what we’re really getting at from a family point of view also is integrating learning, helping children develop the skills that they need to cope with future stressors so that we can address the fact that what we’re seeing is this huge spike in anxiety disorders and depression amongst our children.”