This comprehensive resource provides social workers, teachers and other professionals with tools to help strengthen resilience and coping skills in the youth they serve. The resource focuses on seven essential skills that comprise resilience: emotional awareness, impulse control, optimism, flexible thinking, empathy, self-efficacy, and connectedness.
For each skill, social workers will find practical classroom activities, worksheets, and evidence-based strategies. The activities can be used in individual counseling, group work, or workshops. Strategies are included for partnering with families and schools to promote resilience-building at home and in the classroom.
While the resource was designed for educational settings, its components are highly adaptable for social workers. The skills align with core competencies in youth work such as supporting healthy development, improving coping abilities, and teaching life skills. This resource allows social workers to take an empowering, strength-based approach in helping youth overcome adversity.
With its foundations in positive psychology, theoretical grounding, and diverse practical applications, this is an invaluable guide for social workers aiming to enhance resilience among young people facing stress and trauma. It provides a toolbox filled with engaging, hands-on methods to help youth cultivate essential life skills and adaptive capacities.
CONTENTS:
- How to use this resource
- What is resilience?
- Creating a supportive environment
- Seven essential skills to build resilience
- Exploring: What is resilience?
- Skill 1: Emotional awareness and self-regulation
- Practical strategies
- Essential resilience skills
- Worksheets
- Skill 2: Impulse control
- Practical strategies
- Essential resilience skills
- Worksheets
- Skill 3: Optimism
- Practical strategies
- Essential resilience skills
- Worksheets
- Skill 4: Flexible thinking
- Practical strategies
- Essential resilience skills
- Worksheets
- Skill 5: Empathy
- Practical strategies
- Essential resilience skills
- Worksheets
- Skill 6: Self-efficacy
- Practical strategies
- Essential resilience skills
- Worksheets
- Skill 7: Connectedness and reaching out
- Practical strategies
- Essential resilience skills
- Worksheets
- Further support and contacts
- References
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