A growing body of policy, research and practice is concerned with understanding how young people develop resilience. The research specifically investigated how retired professionals from a range of disciplines have used participation in structured activities (often leisure/learning) to help young people respond to the challenges they face.
Resilience Forum
How can we show children we love them even when they push us away? How do we make children more resilient when they are angry, self-harming, anxious, abusive or delinquent? Nine practical strategies parents, caregivers and educators need to help young people of all ages heal, no matter a child’s emotional, psychological or behavioural problems.
Ways of researching resilience and wellbeing using mixed methods designs in participatory ways to develop knowledge that informs policy and practice, including contextualization, measure development, sample selection, data collection, analysis, convergence and knowledge mobilization.
When working with children and adolescents from emotionally turbulent or physically dangerous backgrounds, we often focus too narrowly on the individual’s complex needs and problems – like delinquency, anxiety or conflict with caregivers – and miss the broader sources of healing and resilience in young people’s lives.
What happened when a group of young people and young adults from different community groups in East Sussex co-curated an exhibition on resilience at a Research Council event in Cardiff with a bunch of University of Brighton academics? Did they all live to tell the tale? What did they actually exhibit?
The National Institute of Health Research reported links between staff well-being and service user outcomes. What are the best approaches to support practitioner resilience and what insight can practitioners themselves offer, across different professional groups? How can practitioner resilience be shaped in the current context of practice.
Are we helping people to do better ‘despite’ the challenges they face, or can resilience also mean changing the very nature of the challenges themselves? Are people naturally resilient and, if so, what does that mean for those who are not? Does it matter how we define resilience at all, or can we just get on with helping people instead of arguing over language?
Social and health inequalities go hand in hand: being poorer or coming from a disadvantaged background more generally is associated with inferior physical and mental health; durations of a healthy life and life expectancies are frequently considerably shorter.
This session was an interactive and experiential introduction, giving a felt sense of how a mindfulness practice may bring a wide range of benefits from increasing self-awareness, to gaining a greater sense of control where you can respond to rather than react to situations.
This Parental Engagement Project commissioned by East Sussex County Council in collaboration with 24 schools aimed to raise achievement for pupils in receipt of Free School Meals. The project was conducted through engagement with parents as parent researchers.
