Building resilience in young people in-house

Using evidence based interventions that are easily applied and taught, this course identifies strategies and insights that help strengthen resilience skills in young people. Explore self-help tools to develop growth mindsets, nourish inner reserves, strengthen support, recover from setbacks and build resilient responses to difficult situations.

Course aims:

• To increase understanding of how learnable skills, strategies and insights can strengthen resilience in young people (and ourselves). The course focuses on evidence-based interventions and self-help tools that are easily applied and taught.
• To increase participants’ familiarity with resilience insights, interventions and self-help practices they can use themselves and pass on to the young people they work with.

Course objectives:

By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:

• Be aware of the evidence base showing that resilience training reduces the risk of depression and anxiety in young people
• Recognise how growth mindsets can help recovery from setbacks
• Explore methods for drawing out strengths in themselves and/or clients
• Become more familiar with practical strategies for problem solving, recovering from setbacks, dealing with distress and improving relationships.

Maximum group size: 16 people

Target audience:

This course is designed for staff working with young people and wanting to strengthen self-help resilience skills in their clients.

Competences: NHS KSF HWB1