PART I: Resilience

A. A working definition of resilience

• resilience vs. protective factors
• resilience vs. invulnerability
• resilience as paradox

• building a bond
• changing the client's self-image
• motivating positive change
• tapping survivor's pride: "I have been tested, and I have prevailied."
• video demonstration

• the challenge mindset
• a developmental vocabulary of strengths
• reframing

PART II: Three Competencies in Depth

A. The challenge mindset: believing in the client's strengths

• the Damage Model: an emphasis on risks
• the Challenge Model: balancing risks and strengths
• resistances to the challenge mindset: how to respond constructively

• The seven resiliencies: insight, independence, relationships, initiative, creative, humor, morality
• the protective functions of the resiliencies
• the development of the resiliencies in children, adolescents, and adults
• experiential exercise

• revealing hidden themes in stories of suffering
• techniques and strategies of reframing
• uses of reframing in education, clinic, and prevention settings
• "James' Story," a video demonstration of reframing
• case study

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN

• How to define and apply the concept of resilience in individual work with clients
• How to cultivate a challenge mindset - the beliefs and attitudes for working successfully with a client's strengths
• How to apply a developmental vocabulary of strengths in diagnosis and treatments
• The strategies for strengths-based interviewing and treatment
• How the concept of resilience can influence program development and implementation in education and prevention