Resilience (Personality)
Journal article
Resilience-focused approaches for school-age Australian First Nations populations: a systematic review of influential factors
This article reports on a systematic review of the literature on factors influencing resilience in school age (5–19 years) Australian First Nations populations. It describes how resilience is defined and operationalised and how factors influencing resilience map onto the Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) model. This information can facilitate evidence-based recommendations for policy, interventions and programs.
Guide
Building resilience in children and young people
This paper describes what good practice looks like in community-based group counselling for building resilience in children and young people. It defines resilience as a dynamic process that draws on personal as well as external resources, and outlines how successful interventions enhance those resources.
Guide
Measuring social connection
This toolkit provides an overview of social connection and describes a process of measurement development. It will allow practitioners to understand the dimensions of social connection and how social connection relates to outcomes of personal wellbeing, deploy the measurement tool and compare the average results from their own data collection to results from nationally representative...
Report
Refugee students’ views about how schools can foster resilience: what helps, what hinders and what needs to change
In this report, the authors privilege the perspectives and voices of students from refugee backgrounds on the school-level relationships, activities and services that enable them to develop resilience, despite their sometimes challenging life experiences as young refugees.
Research Summary
Online mental health peer support forums and rural resilience
This research summary looks at the extent to which online peer support mental health forums help to build resilience for the rural people with lived experience of mental ill-health who use them.