Trauma-informed, Resiliency-oriented and Equitable Care

D9 - Understanding Resilience — The Missing Piece in Developing a Comprehensive Trauma-informed Care Approach

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Location: Gaylord National, National Harbor 6/7

Workshop Presenter(s)

Anthony Salerno, PhD

Senior Consultant
National Council for Mental Wellbeing and Senior Research Scientist, New York University
Monroe, New York

Slides

Defining and measuring resilience from a bio-psycho-social perspective has proven to be challenging and service systems struggle to develop strategies to support and build resilience as part of their guiding philosophy and concrete interventions. Gain better understanding of the various definitions of resilience, key individual and environmental resiliency factors that promote successful coping and functioning among adults and youth and core common elements across resiliency building interventions. We’ll also present an illustration of a recently developed resiliency building resource designed to empower adults.

Learning Objectives:

Identify the most important individual and environmental protective factors that define and support resiliency.
Describe the core common elements across resiliency building interventions.
Explain the benefits associated with several key findings from the resiliency research field.
Compare and contrast a multi-level perspectives of resilience with concepts like grit and hardiness.
Describe the basic ingredients of an empowering curriculum-based resiliency building program for adults.