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Child Study Center | Virginia Tech
Resources for Families
To help you manage your child's development, emotions, behavior, and schooling.
Child Study Center Webinar Series
The Early Childhood Education Initiatives at Virginia Tech partnered with the Child Study Center at Virginia Tech to offer a Lunch & Learn series to offer a series of workshops on parenting strategies to support children's social-emotional and academic well-being. These strategies are helpful for all families but may be particularly helpful for children and adolescents diagnosed with a disability or mental health disorder (e.g., ADHD, anxiety, learning disability).
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How to Talk to Your Children about Mass Traumatic Events They Encounter through Social Media
January 23 at 12pm
Ms. Jasmine Lewis and Dr. Rosanna Breaux
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Along with an overview of the impact exposure to traumatic events can have on children, this webinar will offer strategies you can use to limit your child's social media exposure and talk to your child about mass traumatic events. Resources and indicators that your child may need additional support will also be discussed.
What Do I Need to Consider When Implementing Strategies Like Sticker Charts and Time Out to Manage Problematic Behaviors in Young Children?
March 27 at 12pm
Dr. Rosanna Breaux
This webinar will discuss effective strategies for managing problematic behaviors in young children (i.e., ages 2-6 years), as well as common issues that arise with implementation and ways to problem solve use of these strategies.
Strategies to Get Your Child's Schoolwork on Track
Dr. Sam Margherio
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This webinar will build on the one provided by by Dr. Rosanna Breaux and Dr. Sam Margherio on Thursday, February 22, 2024, by providing a more in depth discussion of how to implement various organization, time management, and planning strategies to support a child who may be struggling in these areas.
Strategies to Help with Transitions and Other Difficult Times for Young Children
Dr. Rosanna Breaux​
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This webinar will teach prevention strategies you can use to help reduce behavior problems (e.g., tantrums, aggression, non-compliance) during times of transition, and to support independence in carrying out routines. The strategies discussed will be primarily geared for young children (i.e., children ages 2-6 years), but can also be modified to work with children ages 7-12.
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CSC Newsletters
This month includes information about resources in the area, opportunities to hear about ongoing research, and current research studies.
This month includes information about networking with early childhood education professionals, community advisory boards, and other ongoing research studies.
This month includes information on the Youth Advisory Board, autism assessments, parenting webinar, and more details on our ongoing research studies.
This month includes information on Neurodiversity Celebration Week, the CSC webinar series "Lunch and Learns," your 2024 summer camp guide, and information on our ongoing research studies.
This month includes mental health resources for children and families relating to anxiety and grief, as well as information on our ongoing research studies.
This month includes information about an upcoming parent webinar on steps to help children sleep better and ongoing research studies at Virginia Tech.
This month includes information about upcoming NRV events and ongoing research studies at Virginia Tech. There are also recommendations from the APA regarding social media use in adolescence.
This month includes information about our ongoing research studies, as well as ways to support children's mental health and other back to school resources.
This month includes information about upcoming summer camps in the New River Valley, as well as therapy groups and programs for teens and parents.
Effective Child Therapy
Evidence-based mental health treatment for children and adolescents, created by the Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.
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This website provides information on finding and choosing a psychologist as well as information on various concerns, symptoms, and disorders.
Other Labs
Check out the other labs associated with the Child Study Center!
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SCAN Lab
The Social Clinical Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (SCAN Lab) studies how the brain processes (and sometimes mis-processes) social information. We seek to understand how variation in neural circuits, behaviors and genes lead to impairment in two highly prevalent and debilitating disorders: autism and social anxiety disorder (SAD).
TEEN Lab
The Teen Lab is dedicated to understanding pathways to health risk behaviors (e.g., alcohol and substance use, risky sexual behavior) to inform accessible prevention efforts, especially among those most at-risk of engaging in such behaviors. The Teen Lab focuses on promotion of accessible, feasible, and cost-effective interventions for teens. We therefore build mutually-beneficial partnerships with schools to understand their needs, increase their capacity for intervention delivery, and promote implementation of evidence-based practices.
SEED Lab
The Study of Emotions & Eating Disorders (SEED) Lab conducts research to advance the understanding of eating and related psychopathology. Specifically, we study (1) sociocultural and emotion-based factors that elevate risk for disordered eating and (2) emotional, psychological, and social consequences of disordered eating. We prioritize the study of groups that are at disproportionate risk for eating disorders, but historically underrepresented in the research, such as, but not limited to, individuals experiencing food insecurity.