From Risk to Resilience: Health Realization

Research on the topic of resilience and potentially beneficial applications within the schools is minimal. With the characteristic of resilience being more accurately understood as a more commonly carried trait rather than being something of a phenomenon, school professionals may consider a strengths-based, resilience framework when dealing with the array of perceived “problems” that can present within the school context. Research on resilience in the schools has suggested that school personnel can provide caring and supportive relationships, high expectations, and afford students opportunities to succeed as means of promoting resilient capacities that exist within every individual from this developmental perspective. These factors can foster awareness of individual resilience in the school context at any age, and these effects have the potential to stimulate further resilience and an enhanced sense of self, purpose, and problem solving skills during future stages of development. While these principles could contain helpful ideas for school professionals striving to address the complex needs of today’s students,