Resilience Training Introduction
We have developed a brief, group-based behavioral intervention called Resilience Training for young adults with mild risk-factors for developing mental health conditions. In Resilience Training, we introduce young adults to tools that research has shown may help them manage the particular challenges of this time of life, with the goal of reducing the likelihood that these challenges become overwhelming and debilitating. We offer these services as a part of ongoing research studies.
Early adulthood represents a period of great change. There are major opportunities for growth but also new challenges and major stresses, particularly as young people learn to navigate adult relationships and the demands of higher education, as well as prepare to embark on a career and achieve financial independence. These challenges occur in the context of living apart from family for the first time or living at home while trying to establish a new type of autonomy.
Resilience Training introduces techniques that increase mindfulness, positive mood, compassion, and self-efficacy.
Resilience Training workshops can be conducted in-person, on-campus. We have also adapted this program to be conducted via Zoom and in the unique environment of virtual reality - more information about our VR-based resilience training program can be found here.
