NUBU-Konferansen 2019
Keynote: The need to belong in childhood and adolescence: Implications for well-being – Tracy Vaillancourt, professor ved University of Ottawa.
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The important role peers play in healthy cognitive, emotional, and social
development cannot be underestimated. Research clearly shows that children and
adolescence have a fundamental need to belong and when they do not belong,
healthy development is derailed. Indeed, children and adolescents who are rejected,
ignored, and/or abused by their peers do not thrive—they tend to have significantly
more mental health issues, poorer physical health, and lower academic achievement.
What’s more, longitudinal research points to the fact that these associations
represent causal outcomes of poor treatment by peers.
In this keynote address professor Vaillancourt outline how bullying and related
experiences interferes with that which is instinctually human – the quest to find a
social place within the peer group. In making this case, Vaillancourt consider
historical events in the fields of medicine and psychology, as well as evolutionary
accounts, and delve into the work of neuroscientists, drawing a connection between
physical pain and social pain, and their overlapping development.