Resilience: Managing Your Life in School

Resilience Defined The ability to overcome adversity Resilience vs. Hardiness Adversity can make a person stronger or weaker depending on how he or she copes with it

Protective Processes 1) Reducing negative outcomes by altering the risk or exposure to the risk 2) Reducing a negative chain reaction followed risk exposure 3) Establishing and maintaining self- confidence and self-control 4) Opening up opportunities

Self-Survey: Take out a piece of paper Self-Survey 10.1 Page 179 Answer the following 10 questions using the following scale: Always = 5 Often = 4 Occasionally = 3 Seldom = 2 Never = 1

Survey 1) I take my schoolwork seriously 2) I seek help when not receiving the grades I want 3) I can manage the stress even if my courses are hard. 4) I’m determined and have a strong will to succeed 5) I have a strong sense of self-discipline 6) I don’t doubt my abilities, even when I perform poorly 7) I’m committed to doing well in school 8) I don’t look for easy classes so I can get good grades 9) I work hard for my grades 10) I’m positive and optimistic and learn from my mistakes

How resilient are you? Add up your scores 40 or above reflects high resilience = so-so Below 30 = There’s work to be done!

Powerful thoughts Where does resilience live? Thoughts we have are subject to our own control Person-Environment-Behavior model

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Conquering Resilience: Ten Techniques 1) Set proximal (nearby) goals, that is goals that are near what we can already do or have already done 2) Keep Tract of your behavior and the conditions in which it occurs Baseline-a measure of the current status of your behavior or performance Recognizing potential danger

3) Use a variety of coping methods What do you do deal with stress ? Positive vs. Negative strategies Text anxiety Not just one way! Conquering Resilience: Ten Techniques

4) Create Motivating Incentives Incentives vs. disincentives Things Activities Feeling good about yourself Others? Conquering Resilience: Ten Techniques

5) Tell Yourself what to do in a consistent and persistent way Use feedback Examples of when you should? Conquering Resilience: Ten Techniques

6) Create a supportive environment and avoid unsupportive ones Supportive environment- one that affirms or reinforces what is good for you. Conquering Resilience: Ten Techniques

7) Maintain self-control Keep tract Recognize extreme emotions both positive and negative Just ask Conquering Resilience: Ten Techniques

8) Think Positive Changing ones beliefs Nothing succeeds like success Know your resources Help contributes to success Success cycle pg. 193 Stereotype Conquering Resilience: Ten Techniques

9) Regard a Slip as a Temporary Setback and Redouble Efforts to Reinstate Control “If you slip, don’t flip” Tell yourself Plan for slips Conquering Resilience: Ten Techniques

10) Build Enablement Before Problems Occur Enablement- the aids, strategies, or supports that enable you to deal with something Conquering Resilience: Ten Techniques

SO… The Mastery Mentality: Self-Regulation Techniques Personal Adaptability Successful Coping