<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/helping-children-cope-with-stress.html" dsn="news"><title>Helping Children Cope with Stress</title><item_date>10/05/2015 12:00:00 PM</item_date><author>Bruce Ecker</author><image><img src="/news/images/bruce-ecker-4998.png" alt="Helping Children Cope with Stress"/></image><image_caption>Bruce Ecker, PhD, Director of the Concentration on Children and Families of Adversity and Resilience (CFAR).</image_caption><thumbnail><img src="/news/images/bruce-ecker-4998.png" alt="Helping Children Cope with Stress"/></thumbnail><summary>Today’s children are growing up in an increasingly complex world. They routinely encounter multiple sources of adversity and stress in their homes, schools, peer groups, communities, and the media. Despite this, however, children can be highly resilient, and there is much we can do to help them cope and thrive.</summary><category>Research &amp; Advocacy</category><featured/><tags><tag>Research &amp; Advocacy</tag></tags></item>