Resilience - American Psychological Association (APA) Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands
Building your resilience We all face trauma, adversity and other stresses Here’s a roadmap for adapting to life-changing situations, and emerging even stronger than before
Building resilience in the face of adversity No one gets through life without encountering adversity But many people survive terrible things without lasting trauma George Bonanno, PhD, talks about how humans cope with extreme life events, the factors that lead to resilience in the face of adversity, and how cultivating cognitive flexibility can help us handle difficult times
Resilience guide for parents and teachers Children’s problems include adapting to a new classroom, bullying by classmates or abuse at home, but resilience is the ability to thrive despite these challenges
Rethinking Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth: APA journal American Psychologist special issue aiming to provide a foundation for a new generation of resilience and posttraumatic growth research
Maximizing children’s resilience Maximizing children’s resilience New psychological research points the way toward boosting resilience in children at risk, particularly the importance of supporting parents and early interventions for children and adolescents By Kirsten Weir September 2017, Vol 48, No 8 Print version: page 40 12 min read
Building Student Resilience Classroom lessons to help students adapt and grow academically, emotionally, and socially with three resilience-building skills Part of our COVID-19 Teaching Resources for preK-12 Teachers
Investigating the road to resilience Resilience — the ability to adapt in the face of trauma, adversity, tragedy or even significant ongoing stressors — is receiving considerable attention of late
BAM! Student Teacher Resilience Lessons: Grades 9-12 Main Lesson Acknowledge that life has small and large stressors that impact everyone in different ways (e g , social stressors, aca-demic pressure, or family struggles) and define resilience as the ability to move forward from challenges Discuss how building resilience helps us cope with difficulties including the sense of uncertainty associated with change