Resilience

Resilience

1. process of adapting well in the face of adversity (or 'stress'), trauma or threat (or 'risk') and being able to recover

   • involvie individuals and their environments.

2. Adversities

   • specific incidents
   • ongoing environmental factors within families, communities or societies
   • unexpected losses and bereavement
   • transitions, discrimination and structural inequalities
   • Levels of adversity and threat
     • Risk factors
       • The child
         • experience and reaction to adversity differs widely,
       • Thefamily
       • The environment
       • an accumulation of risk factors can contribute to poor mental health

3. Developing a protective environment

   • consider the factors that are potentially harmful.
   • what children,etc consider stressful and how that affects their resilience
   • multiple sources of anxiety and stress
   • reduction or elimination of resilience

4. individual or collective ability to behave or cope positively, despite being faced by something that could be considered to be challenging or threatening

5. Developing resilience

   • dynamic process
     • inherent attributes
       • vulnerability
     • relationships and resources in the family, community and society
       • are often referred to as a 'protective environment'.
   • Protective factors
     • personality
     • social milieu
     • family structure
   • helping children recognise and make use of their intrinsic resilience
   • working to provide protective processes
   • enabling children to deal with current or future adversity.

6. Strengthening resilience

   • personal strengths
     • I am
   • Social, interpersonal skills
     • I can
   • External supports and resources
     • I have

7. Mental health and resilience

   • social constructs of mental health
     • negative constructions
   • material, psychological and social issue.
     • should be adressed
   • Preventive, social ecological and holistic perspectives
     • involve young people, parents, families, schools and other agencies