Aims & Objectives
Course aims:
• To develop participants’ understanding of how resilience can be strengthened by
learnable skills. The course focuses on evidence-based interventions and self-help tools that are easily applied and taught.
• To increase participants’ familiarity with resilience insights, interventions and self help
practices they can use themselves and pass on to the people they work with.
Course objectives:
By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:
• Be aware of the evidence base showing that resilience training reduces the risk of depression, anxiety, stress-related conditions and drink/drug misuse.
• Recognise how growth mindsets can help recovery from setbacks
• Explore methods for drawing out strengths in themselves and/or clients
• Become more familiar with practical strategies for problem solving, recovering from setbacks, dealing with distress and improving relationships.