The Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development gives you access to important and up-to-date information that is based on the best scientific research currently available.  It’s designed to help you sort through all the conflicting information about what promotes, and what hinders, healthy child development so you can make better choices that will result in better outcomes for children.

We’ve organized this Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development to focus on certain disorders, behaviour problems and life circumstances that can have a significant impact on children’s health and wellbeing.

So you will find information on anger, aggression and bullying, conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety and depression.

We will look at the role that parenting plays in fostering the healthy development of children, and what it means to grow up in a lone parent or low-income family or an environment of abuse or neglect.

We’ll talk about how to distinguish mental health problems from normal development.

We’ll discuss the impact of problems left untreated, such as poor school performance, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, and poor peer relationships in adolescence.

And we’ll provide a list of recommended reading materials and other resources geared to the specific needs of families, teachers and clinicians.

 

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