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Webinar: Well-being at any age

How to buffer stress in the face of challenging circumstances


Date & time
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Registration is closed

Speaker(s)

Erin Barker, PhD

Cost

Complimentary

Organization

University Advancement

Where

Online

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

12 – 1 p.m. Eastern Time

Different stages or phases of adulthood are marked by different stressors.

In this webinar, Concordia psychology professor Erin Barker, PhD, will describe ways to buffer stress and promote emotional well-being in the face of challenging circumstances.

Participants will have the opportunity to work through a COMPASS self-reflection exercise to generate strategies to manage stress.

Coping
Optimism
Motivation
Persistence
Affect (emotion)
Support
Self

Erin Barker, PhD

Associate Professor, Concordia’s Department of Psychology

Erin Barker directs the Lifespan Well-Being Laboratory at Concordia’s Centre for Research in Human Development.

As a developmental scientist whose research examines patterns of emotional experience across developmental transitions, she is specifically interested in how stress and coping affect mental health and wellbeing during the transition to adulthood. 

Erin completed her training at the Universities of Victoria (MA) and Alberta (PhD) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Child and Family Research Section of the NICHD and the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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