Teen Resiliency Building Workbook
- Teach teens how to interact with the environment, handle stresses that occur, and bounce back from these stressful events
- Combines reflective assessment and journaling to expose participants to powerfuls methods of self-reflection
- Includes: facilitator reproducible self-assessments, exercises, and educational handouts
- Sections include: Optimistic Outlook Scale, Sense of Control Scale, Sense-of-Self Scale, Ability to Bounce Back Scale, Change Management Scale
Written by John J. Liptak, EdD and Ester Leutenberg. Resiliency can be thought of as a skill that allows teens to manage life's challenges, stresses, changes and pressures effectively, and cope with and adapt successfully to adversity. Bounce back to a balanced state after facing a major disruption in life or career planning. Each of the five separate sections helps participants learn more about themselves and how to build the resiliency which will enable them to thrive in times of adversity, change and stress. They will learn about the importance of building resiliency skills to turn change and stress into opportunities and challenges, to live life zestfully, and to take positive actions in order to live their lives with less stress.