Young moms off to a strong start with Building Healthy Children Program
The Mt. Hope Family Center held a graduation ceremony Tuesday for 20 young mothers who successfully completed the Building Healthy Children Program. The event, held at the Strong Museum of Play, came...
View ArticleAt-risk families find research-driven services at Mt. Hope Family Center
The Mt. Hope Family Center sits on a two-way street: its psychologists, researchers, and clinicians have provided evidence-based intervention and prevention services to more than 900 at-risk children...
View ArticleBuilding the right mobile app for caregivers of children with FASD
No discipline is an island. After years of working with patients and researching fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), Christie Petrenko, a research associate at the University’s Mt. Hope Family...
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Mt. Hope Family Center receives $8 million grant to establish national center...
The University of Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family Center (MHFC), in conjunction with the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health (ITR), has received a...
View ArticleSuicide risk in abused teen girls linked to mother-daughter conflict
Among adolescents who suffered maltreatment as children, not all entertain suicidal thoughts. So what can we learn about those who do? Researchers at the University of Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family...
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Mt. Hope Family Center gets surprise funding boost to treat child traumatic...
The University of Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family Center has received an unexpected boost from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the US Department of Health & Human...
View ArticleWhen parenting teens, keep calm and don’t carry on
The field of adolescent psychology is increasingly focused on parents, with researchers asking how mothers and fathers control themselves (and their rising anger) in difficult interactions with their...
View ArticleAlcohol during pregnancy—September is FASD awareness month
September marks fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) awareness month. Up to 80 percent of people affected by FASD don’t even know they have the disability. Rates of diagnosis lag well behind those of...
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Self-care linked to greater confidence in parents of children with FASD
Children diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)—caused by prenatal alcohol exposure—often face lifelong developmental, cognitive and behavioral problems. Without the right support they...
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First mobile app for caregivers of children with FASD reaches trial stage
In the summer of 2017, Christie Petrenko, an assistant professor and research associate at the University of Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family Center, and Cristiano Tapparello, a research assistant professor...
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Expert team creates training manual to help providers recognize fetal alcohol...
The handbook Assessment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders features sections on prenatal exposure, dysmorphology, neuropsychology, the diagnostic process, and case-based learning modules. Prenatal...
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Mt. Hope Family Center’s programs for children facing trauma expand with new...
New grants recognize the center’s success in addressing complex challenges among vulnerable children and their families. The University of Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family Center will be able to expand...
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Finishing doctoral work, nurse practitioner Lynn Cole juggles many roles
A doctor of nursing practice degree is a capstone to a career of helping kids with special needs get better access and care. Lynn Cole ’98N (MS) ’21N (DNP) is a juggler: Career, classroom, kids,...
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Partners play pivotal role in pregnant women’s alcohol use, which affects...
Rochester psychologists say successful intervention efforts need to include partners of mothers-to-be. A new study by a team of University of Rochester psychologists and other researchers in the...
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How does the pandemic affect families who were already struggling?
Rochester psychologists have been awarded federal funding to study the pandemic’s long-term effects on family cohesion and child well-being. About a year and a half after COVID-19 rapidly spread around...
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Thriving while living with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)
Rochester psychologists make the case for an approach to FASD based on patients’ strengths rather than deficits. One evening Amy Rothfuss slipped a notebook into her Bible without paying much...
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Mt. Hope Family Center expands evidence-based trauma services
New federal funding will support the center’s programs addressing child and family trauma at individual and systemic levels. The University of Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family Center has received two...
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Mt. Hope Family Center awarded $8.5M to continue child maltreatment studies
The National Institutes of Health funding builds on a grant given five years ago to establish a multidisciplinary national research and resource center. The University of Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family...
View Article3 ways to reduce child sexual abuse rates
A new study finds that local, community-wide education efforts can drastically lower incidence of sexual abuse of children. The sexual abuse of children affects 15 percent of girls and 8 percent of...
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