Series 1. What we mean by Home Social Environments 1. Aspects of the Home Social Environment; 2. Natural and built home environments; 3. Social and cultural setting; 4. The virtual world, Social and mass media; 5. Understanding Home Social environments through Popular Expressions
Series 2. Home environments and behavior 1. Behavior as the need to adapt; 2. Behavior as self-expression; 3. Behavior as self-preservation; 4. Self-worth, Self-direction, Self-control, and Empowerment; 5. Building Home Environments that promote positive behaviors
Series 3. Home environments and learning 1. Social Environments shape the brain, Brain Structure & Development; 2. Brain structure affects interactions; 3. Interactions affect drive and learning; 4. Enriched Environments & Their Effects; 5. Building Enriched Home Environments
Series 4. Home environments and health 1. Location and Interactions affect mood; 2. Mood affects resistance to disease; 3. Mood can affect mental health; 4. Toxins in the environment (air, food, water) affect health; 5. Building Home Environments that promote health and Safety
Series 5. Home environments and Success 1. Impact on Career choice; 2. Effect on Talent development;3. Influence on Academic success; 4. Providing access and Supporting dreams; 5. Building Home Environments that promote success
Series 6. Home environments and Stress 1. Social Environments affect stress level; 2. How stress shows up in the body; 3. How stress shows up in behavior; 4. How stress affects learning; 5. How stress affects health
Series 7. Home environments have weight 1. The load of obstacles to achieving goals; 2. Negative versus positive experiences; 3. Pressures of home environment on sense of self; 4. Different pressures based on looks and personality; 5. Different pressures based on culture, religion, and nationality
Series 8. Why It Takes a Village: The Home environment is nested in wider environments 1. The home as a mini-village; 2. The home in the community, region, and nation; 3. Working with the school to improve your child's success; 4. How the Internet and social media impacts your child's life; 5. Building a supportive and empowering home environment
Series 9: Enriching Your Child's Environment beyond the Home 1. Making use of school resources; 2. Making use of free stuff in the community: libraries, museums, performances, talks, festivals; 3. Getting your child involved in cultural events, learning another language, visiting other towns; 4. Helping your child explore, and be safe in, the virtual world; 5. Helping your child become a world citizen: learning about world history, understanding American history in the context of world history, learning about current critical issues across the world
Whole-Child, Whole-Environment Approach Applying SEALS to the Home Environment
The SEALS Framework for creating highly effective Social Environments
We help parents to a) understand the scientific basis of the SEALS Framework, b) use SEALS to better understand and support their children, and c) improve relationships in the home, and with the school and community, to further the well-being of their children.
