Building Resilience
Masten (2014) : “the capacity of a dynamic system to adapt successfully to disturbances that threaten system function, viability, or development” Adolescent
Provider Toolkit (2013): “ The positive capacity to cope, adjust to, or recover from stress and negative life events; includes personality traits, social skills, and response that enable thriving in an environment”
Judith Herman (1990): "An experience that often involves a threat which results in vulnerability and loss of control. It often leaves individuals with feelings of helplessness and fear, and it interferes with relationships and beliefs"
Hopelessness, Hyper vigilance, Diminished Creativity, Guilt, Anger, Fear, Minimizing, Not wanting to go to work, Letting paperwork fall behind...
...etc., etc., etc
Develop communication skills; Helping a friend Allowing experience of success or failure; Respect ability to make decisions; Model appropriate behavior; Learning to ask for help; Acknowledge when you are wrong; Learn to self-advocate; Give back to the community; Giving a choice; Ability to calm self; Express feelings
Always Empower, Never Disempower Provide Unconditional Positive Regard Maintain High Expectations Check Assumptions, Observe, and Question Be a Relationship Coach Provide Guided Opportunities for Helpful Participation
Check-in with students, remember anniversaries..
"activities and practices that we can engage in on a regular basis to reduce stress and maintain and enhance our short- and longer-term health and well-being"
Safety; Trustworthiness & Transparency; Peer Support; Collaboration & Mutuality; Empowerment, Voice, & Choice; Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues
“A process by which a professional’s inner experience in negatively transformed through empathic engagement with clients’ trauma material.. Can disrupt a helping professional’s belief of their world and interpersonal relationships such as their perception of safety and the ability to trust others”
_______________ is an evidenced-based practice has the strongest research evidence for children who have experience trauma
" _________________ in childhood have been linked to numerous positive outcomes and is a significant predictor of resilience among high risk populations”