This research demonstrates strong relationships between resilience and personality traits, particularly in reducing Neuroticism and increasing Conscientiousness and Extraversion. The identification of an 85% PR6 resilience threshold offers a tangible target for resilience training programs. Rossouw, J.G., (2024)…
Resilience First Aid demonstrates significant promise as a proactive approach to building resilience, enhancing peer support skills, and contributing to suicide prevention efforts. Rossouw, J.G., Ruberto, M. (2024)…
Emotional Fitness is the development and consistent training of emotional skills which allow individuals to regulate their energy and manage their intensity of emotions, so that people are able to respond, and live in concordant with human values, regardless of adversity. Emotions are a biological imperative and central to living strong, resilient lives. Read an overview to help explain emotional health and the part this play in our wellbeing. Salutogenesis is the theory of building wellbeing through the development of human assets…
Anxiety is the most common description to explain a set of symptoms that have physiological, cognitive and emotional disruptions in people’s lives. Although this overview has been written for parents to give a deeper understanding into what they are dealing with, when their children experience these symptoms, it is also an easy read to help anyone looking for easy-to-understand language and insights into this area of psychological distress…
Aaron Antonovosky referred to Salutogenesis, the origin of health, in the late 1970s. He described it as a movement toward wellness in understanding and managing our lives with greater resources, developing stronger resistance and creating a solid sense of coherence. It is the experiences that people have, which help shape the resources and meaning brought to their lives. A Salutogenic life deviated from a pathogenicperspective, and was described as one that was health promoting, meaningful to the individual and added years to life…
A parenting requires emotional competencies to be developed by both the parent and the child. The process of developing these emotional skills is allocated to the adults with whom the child resides, lives and plays. Emotions are the natural currency of growth and maturity – for every exchange of emotional experience will come the allocation of credits in the piggy bank, or internal resources. If we oer our children an abundance of pleasant and stable emotions to “bank”, they learn that their world is secure. If we oer our children repeated unpleasant and destabilising emotions, they learn that their world is insecure…
Stress is everywhere. At school it is mostly associated with pressure, anxiety, tension and worry. The more stress that is present the more likely it is for students to experience challenges with concentration, motivation, memory, planning and organising, completing assignments and studying for tests and exams. However, when neuroscience or brain-based principles of stress are understood, a balance between helpful and unhelpful stress can be achieved. Then the focus shifts firstly, to attaining and maintaining well-being then secondly, to increasing and sustaining performance…
What are the current challenges for schools, teachers, parents, children and adolescents in mental health, resilience, or emotional intelligence?
The mental health of people within school communities are challenged by a number of variables, like exposure to a history of compromise growing up, secure relationships and connections as a child, poverty, trauma, abuse, self worth, and anxiety just to name a few.
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The first 1000 days are very important as everything the child learns about their environment develops in this period, including who to trust in the present and in the future.
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The 5 Parenting Systems according to Dan Hughes and Jon Baylin
Dan Hughes and Jon Baylin are practitioners and authors from the USA who have worked for decades with parents, carers and children who have experienced trauma. They have a particular interest in helping parents and carers strengthen their connection with their children and draw upon brain research as a frame for their approach. In their book ‘Brain Based Parenting- The neuroscience of caregiving for a healthy attachment’ they talk about five inter-related systems that support parenting.
Please read the pdf file below for more details.
ACF Parenting Systems
Website: www.childhood.org.au
