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A parent wrapping their child in bubble wrap and helmet

Magazine Article

September 11, 2014

Bubble-Wrapping Our Children

The Perils of Overprotective Parenting

Michael Ungar

We've become so focused on keeping children safe that we exaggerate the dangers they face despite the fact that they’ve never been safer. Still, no amount of statistical reports can get parents to stop hovering over their child. What’s a therapist to do? Read More
Beyond Clinical Correctness

Magazine Article - Case Study

January 1, 2012

Beyond Clinical Correctness

Unearthing the logic of the client’s solution

Michael Ungar & Janet Sasson Edgette

An understanding of the unconventional ways people demonstrate resilience is important in helping us avoid pathologizing clients and stop believing there’s only one clinically “correct” way to help them. Read More
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Magazine Article

October 18, 2008

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Risk-averse parents do their children no favors

Michael Ungar

Q: I'm seeing more parents who live in safe, middle-class communities and protect their children from every imaginable risk. Is this another form of enmeshment... Read More

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Michael Ungar

Michael Ungar, PhD, is principal investigator of the Resilience Research Centre and Killam Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. His books include Researching Resilience, edited with Linda Liebenberg, and Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth.