{"id":74852,"date":"2026-01-07T15:57:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=74852"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:12:51","slug":"apa-monitor-bussw-professor-paris-work-is-changing-mental-healthcare-for-young-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/apa-monitor-bussw-professor-paris-work-is-changing-mental-healthcare-for-young-children\/","title":{"rendered":"APA Monitor: BUSSW Professor Paris\u2019 Work is Changing Mental Healthcare for Young Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2026\/01-02\/trends-childhood-lifelong-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APA Monitor<\/a>\u00a0article\u00a0highlights how psychologists are reimagining\u00a0mental health care for\u00a0very young\u00a0children\u00a0by increasingly\u00a0advancing the notion that mental health starts at birth and requires a relational approach that includes both children and caregivers.\u00a0Professor Ruth Paris\u00a0from\u00a0Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW)\u00a0shares\u00a0how\u00a0an\u00a0intervention\u00a0she and colleagues developed\u00a0over 12\u00a0years\u00a0addresses\u00a0that need,\u00a0and\u00a0changes\u00a0how\u00a0mental health care for young children\u00a0and mothers\u00a0is\u00a0perceived and managed.<\/p>\n<p>Building Resilience Through Intervention: Growing Healthier Together (BRIGHT),\u00a0a therapeutic intervention,\u00a0addresses\u00a0the\u00a0needs\u00a0of\u00a0children\u00a0and mothers in\u00a0recovery from\u00a0substance use disorder (SUD)\u00a0by focusing\u00a0on\u00a0enhancing\u00a0the mother&#8217;s\u00a0capacity to\u00a0recognize\u00a0dysregulation in their children\u00a0and\u00a0to\u00a0respond\u00a0in healthy ways,\u00a0while\u00a0managing their own emotions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow there\u2019s a lot more awareness, both in the U.S. and globally, that what happens in the early years matters for psychological health later in life,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Professor\u00a0Paris, PhD, LICSW, a professor of clinical practice at the Boston University School of Social Work who develops interventions to support infant and early childhood mental health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2026\/01-02\/trends-childhood-lifelong-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/ruth-paris-lcsw-licsw\/\" class=\"cta-button\">Learn more about Professor Ruth Paris\u2019 research<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The APA Monitor highlights BUSSW Professor Ruth Paris\u2019 work to improve mental health outcomes for very young children and mothers recovering from substance use disorder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25622,"featured_media":74853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7513,7440,7517,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81501,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74852\/revisions\/81501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}