Growing Up Resilient: Ways to Build Resilience in Children and Youth

Resilience is an important aspect of mental well-being.

The authors consider the development of resilience at three levels: individual, family and environmental. Tips follow each section.

Bouncing back from today’s stresses is one of the best life skills children and youth can develop. Growing Up Resilient is a must-read for adults (including parents, teachers and front-line workers) who want to increase resilience in the children and youth in their lives.

Table of Contents / PDF version

About the authors / PDF version

Acknowledgments

1 The power of resilience / PDF version

• Approaching resilience
• Current thinking and practice
• About the book

2 Understanding resilience / PDF version

• Resilience
• Mental health
• Mental health promotion
• Mental health problems and resilience
• Risk and protective factors
• The development of resilience

3 Enhancing resilience: Individual factors

• Developmental transitions
• Key individual factors affecting resilience
• Temperament
• Learning strengths
• Feelings and emotions
• Self-concept
• Ways of thinking
• Adaptive skills
• Social skills
• Physical health
• Summary

4 Enhancing resilience: Family factors

• The importance of family
• Key family factors affecting resilience
• Attachment
• Communication
• Family structure
• Parent relations
• Parenting style
• Sibling relations
• Parents’ health
• Support outside the family
• Summary

5 Enhancing resilience: Environmental factors

• Social determinants of resilience
• Key environmental factors affecting resilience
• Inclusion: Having a sense of belonging
• Social conditions: Society promoting resilience
• Access: Systems promoting resilience
• Involvement: Youth’s participation in the world around them

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