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Student skills for resilience

Adolescence can bring very distinctive challenges. This component is all about how you build the capacity of young people to respond to the stressors in their lives, and how you can create a context in which students can drive their own mental health agenda.

Target Area 3 RESILIENCE APPROACHES AND PROGRAMS

Adolescent development (staff)

Target Audience

Staff

What kinds of stressors do adolescents experience and how do they tend to respond to them? This module will help you develop an understanding of the adolescent experience.

Adolescent development (students)

Target Audience

Staff teach students

The student version of this module contains additional materials you can use as a teaching resource.

Developing resilience

Target Audience

Staff

Resilience is critical to mental health, and schools are a perfect environment for developing resilience on a daily basis. This module sets you on the right path to developing a resilient school community.

Resilience programs and planning

Target Audience

Staff

There are many resilience programs available to schools but how do you choose a good one? And how do you implement it in a way that maximises your chances of success? This module talks through some of the nuts and bolts.

Target Area 4 STUDENT EMPOWERMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH

Empowering students

Target Audience

Staff

Positive mental health requires some degree of autonomy and self-determination. This module explores some ways in which young people can lead and participate in the decisions that shape their lives.