Resilience Training
We have developed a brief, group-based workshop 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.
Currently we are conducting two research studies of Resilience Training (RT):
A randomized controlled trial that will assess how beneficial RT is, and how it works
A training program called Leading Resilience Training (LRT) that teaches college staff how to lead RT workshops.