Nurturing Children’s Resilience: Approaches from Positive Psychology

Nurturing children’s resilience is now more vital than ever, as children face increasing challenges to their mental health. We need to equip children with the skills they need to flourish and thrive, despite these many difficulties and obstacles. The field of Positive Psychology, which is the science of well-being, can offer us many approaches and ideas for nurturing children’s resilience, through a combination of support and skills.

This two-part series talk will share insights and research on resilience, as well as several practical resilience skills that can be utilised with children.

THAT PARTICIPANTS WILL:

1.Gain an understanding of the concept of resilience

2.. Gain an understanding of the protective factors involved in the development of resilience in children and young people

3. Explore several practical, evidence-based resilience skills that can be utilised with children and young people, which can be linked to the SPHE curriculum