Category: Previous resilience forums

How can we show children we love them even when they push us away? How do we make children more resilient when they are angry, self-harming, anxious, abusive or delinquent? Nine practical strategies parents, caregivers and educators need to help young people of all ages heal, no matter a child’s emotional, psychological or behavioural problems.

Ways of researching resilience and wellbeing using mixed methods designs in participatory ways to develop knowledge that informs policy and practice, including contextualization, measure development, sample selection, data collection, analysis, convergence and knowledge mobilization.

When working with children and adolescents from emotionally turbulent or physically dangerous backgrounds, we often focus too narrowly on the individual’s complex needs and problems – like delinquency, anxiety or conflict with caregivers – and miss the broader sources of healing and resilience in young people’s lives.

What happened when a group of young people and young adults from different community groups in East Sussex co-curated an exhibition on resilience at a Research Council event in Cardiff with a bunch of University of Brighton academics? Did they all live to tell the tale? What did they actually exhibit?

The National Institute of Health Research reported links between staff well-being and service user outcomes. What are the best approaches to support practitioner resilience and what insight can practitioners themselves offer, across different professional groups? How can practitioner resilience be shaped in the current context of practice.