In looking at the factors that protect young people from eating disorders and ideas of suicide, Dr. Martine Flament, director of the Youth Research Unit at the Royal Ottawa Hospital Health Care Group, says it is not the adverse situations that happen to children, but rather, the coping strategies they use to face everyday setback and traumatic events that makes all the difference. She reports that self esteem is the basis for developing healthy coping strategies. To build self esteem, childre...
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