Resilience Forum
School-based resilience interventions with young people
Angie Hart and Becky Heaver
Boing Boing
1.15pm for 1.30 - 3pm, 5 December 2012
Room 228 Mithras House, Moulsecoomb campus
Resilient approaches in school take many different forms. This makes them difficult to evaluate, copy and compare, and a lot of the literature isn't easy to understand for those who need it most. Conventional academic literature reviews don't quite hit the spot because we wanted to summarise and critique the academic literature on school-based resilience approaches for kids aged 12 and up in a way that was useful. The aim was to explain how and why these approaches do (or do not) work in particular contexts, and to present the results in a way that answered parents' and practitioners' most commonly asked questions. The review is still in progress and Angie has presented the findings so far to an Education conference in Germany. We invite further feedback at the Forum on the questions that have been answered, as well as the things that are missing from the literature. We hope to offer an overview of approaches and techniques that might best support those young people who need them the most.
Biography: Angie first became excited by resilience in 2004, and started applying it as a child and family psychotherapist. As an academic she's researched loads of issues, but she's especially passionate about what resilience can do for people who have been dealt bum cards. As the adoptive parent of three gorgeous children with complex needs, she finds resilience ideas very useful at home. Becky has been researching resilience since 2010 and enjoys working in an area that is accessible and can make a real difference. She has a background in psychology and is particularly interested in resilience from an Asperger's perspective.
May be interested: Parents, practitioners, researchers, academics, policy makers.
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