Lecture | Tara Callaghan "Fostering Prosociality in Refugee Children: An Intervention with Rohingya Children"

Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

Tara Callaghan | Professor of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada

"Fostering Prosociality in Refugee Children: An Intervention with Rohingya Children"

Prosocial behavior is a distinguishing characteristic of human nature. Although prosocial behaviors emerge early in development, contextual factors play an important role in how these behaviors are manifested over development. A large body of research focuses on the trajectory of prosocial development across diverse cultures and investigating contexts that foster it. Against this backdrop of developmental research endeavoring to understand and enhance the cooperative side of humanity, is the catastrophic impact of profoundly negative forces on social-emotional development for children forced to flee from violent conflict. Close to half a million Rohingya children, whose families were forced to flee genocide in Myanmar, now live in the largest refugee camp in the world. To examine the resilience of human prosociality in the face of extreme adversity, we documented initial levels of prosociality in Rohingya refugee children living in a mega-camp (Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh) and the extent to which those levels were improved following a multifaceted intervention designed to foster prosociality. The research was a partnership between Rohingya community members with lived experience, humanitarian practitioners, and developmental researchers. (Continued - for the full ABSTRACT follow this link: https://bit.ly/cmbclecturecallaghan )

00:00 Intro by Philippe Rochet, Professor of Psychology, Emory University

03:52 Lecture

46:38 Q&A Session

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