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Resilience
Resilience
“The process of coping with disruptive, stressful, or challenging life events in a way that provides the individual with additional protective and coping skills”
“Resiliency—an individual’s, family’s, or community’s ability to cope or “bounce back” from significant adverse life situations or stresses in such ways that are not only immediately effective, but also result in an increased ability to respond to future adversity.”
A health education perspective on 'resilience'is that
The concept of resilience task
The concept of resilience task
What is my understanding of the work 'resilience'?
What is a dictionary meaning of the word 'resilience'?
What is a Health education understanding of 'resilience'?
Resilience task reflection
Resilience task reflection
Consider a difficult time in your life where you had to cope with disruptive, stressful, or challenging life events.
What happened?
What do you think contributed towards this disruptive, stresful or challenging life event?
What do you think helped you to deal with this disruptive, stresful or challenging life event?
Risk & Protective factors
Risk & Protective factors
Risk factors increase the likelihood of difficulties, and poor well-being.
For example common risk factors (impairing the building of resilience) include:
• having low self-esteem and poor social or coping skills
• lack of social support from family, friends, community
• truancy, academic failure, and dropping out of school
• experiencing parental conflict and divorce when growing up
• low family income and family disadvantage.
Protective factors enhance life opportunities and promote good well-being. These factors can reduce the impact of unavoidable negative events.
Common protective factors (helping to build resilience) include:
• having a large social support network (family, friends, people in the community)
• having optimism, aspirations, hopes and plans for the future, and faith that life has meaning
• having at least one close friend
• having at least one supportive parent who shows warmth and caring, who sets clear limits and expectations
• staying longer at school and achieving well
• having many personal interests and hobbies that are valued and recognised by others
Lion Movie task
Lion Movie task
While watching the movie "Lion" record down the risk and protective factors that you thing the main character demonstrates. We will discuss these as a class at the end of the movie as they contributed to Saroo's journey.
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
Risk factors are things that undermine peoples resilience and therefore have negative effects on their mental health (Dixon & Robertson, 2013)
protective factors
protective factors
Things that promote, enhance and build peoples resilience therefore having positive effects on mental health (Dixon & Robertson, 2013)
mental health
mental health
What is my understanding of mental health?
What is a dictionary meaning of mental health?
mental Health learning task
mental Health learning task
Visit the mental health foudation website
Download the "five ways to well-being" best practice guide"
Choose either individuals, families, communities or organisations
Discuss as a group what this would look like for your chosen group of people
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