Friday, August 23, 2024
12-12:45 p.m. Presentation by Jacinda K. Dariotis, PhD
12:45-12:55 p.m. Questions & Dialogue
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Compromised self-regulation is a predictor of suboptimal student outcomes (e.g., poor academic performance, school drop-out), in part due to negative responses to stress. Teaching positive coping strategies is essential to prevent a cascade of negative health outcomes. Mindfulness and mindful movement strategies can be practiced by anyone, anywhere, offering substantial scalable potential for improving youth and family stress coping at little or no cost. In this presentation, Jacinda Dariotis will discuss quantitative and qualitative findings across six studies (randomized control trials and quasi-experimental designs) demonstrating the impact of mindfulness and mindful movement practices among youth from preschool through grade 12. She will also discuss the implications of translating these practices into medical settings.
Jacinda K. Dariotis, PhD, MAS, is the director of the Family Resiliency Center, Pampered Chef Ltd. Endowed Chair in Family Resiliency, a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS), Health Innovation Professor in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and a professor of Health and Kinesiology. Dariotis studies ways to facilitate greater alignment between a person’s intentions and behaviors to promote well-being and personal goal attainment. Her research explores decision-making, emotional regulation, cognitive control, and stress reactivity and coping as they relate to risk-taking behaviors to inform how prevention and intervention programs may assist youth in aligning their intentions with their behaviors. Before joining the University of Illinois in 2020, she held faculty positions at the University of Cincinnati and at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received both doctorate and master’s degrees from Penn State University and a master’s degree from Columbia University.
