Ways to Build Resilience

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Discuss strategies to build resilience. Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress. Factors in resilience consist of ways to help people develop within themselves and become better people for themselves. These factors are, the capacity to make realistic plans and take steps to carry them out, a positive view of yourself and confidence in your strengths and abilities, skills in communication and problem solving and the capacity to manage strong feelings and impulses. (Association A., 2007) Research has shown that there are 5 main characteristics as to building resilience that will help build and bring success in students or people in general. The first characteristic Social competence: you can help your students build relationship skills like communication skills, a sense of humor, and caring to give them the ability to work successfully in school, as well as the community. The second way is by developing problem-solving skills; you can help your students develop the ability to effectively plan their work, think critically, and know when to seek help from others. The third being critical consciousness: you can help your students build positive strategies for overcoming challenges such as abuse, neglect, discrimination or oppression. The second last one being autonomy in which you can help your students develop a sense of their own identity as someone who can act independently and exert control over their environment. Autonomy is not valued equally in all cultures, however. Therefore, when promoting autonomy in the classroom, it is important to be sensitive to its varying value for different students and be careful to not offend anyone. The last way would be through a sense of purpose and future: you can help your students learn how to set goals that will motivate them to

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