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Covering a Variety of Kinds of Resilience

Posted on September 21, 2011

Ellen Frank (bio) praises SCoRE's coverage of different kinds of resilience.

What I think is really terrific about this curriculum is that it covers multiple, different kinds of resilience. Different young people will come to college with different vulnerabilities, so a curriculum that focuses on cognitive, physical, I would say circadian vulnerabilities, that helps young people to recognize how they think about things, how they react to things, how well they take care of themselves or don't.

Each of these can be important for some young people. They're not all going to be important for all young people, but getting all young people to think about each of these areas I think has the potential to help them identify okay, what do I need to focus on in order to be more resilient and gives them the opportunity to go into those areas in more depth.

So offering a curriculum that gives young people the opportunity to, in essence, have a dialogue with themselves about what their potential is and what their vulnerabilities are, it could be an enormously helpful thing. It has the potential, I think, to really prevent problems that may occur otherwise.

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Excerpted from interview with contributor in May 2011.

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What the experts say

"Even for the brightest, best-adjusted young person the transition from high school to college is a very, very challenging one.… All young people entering college could benefit from focusing on what their strengths are and how to protect themselves in the face of the stresses that will inevitably come with the transition to college life.… The lessons that one learns in developing a kind of resilience outlook are lessons that will serve one for the rest of one's life."

Ellen Frank, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

"This program provides students with a skill set that either initiates them into resilience or adds to their strengths, and resilience will help them throughout the entire course of their lives."

Toni Macpherson, MEd
Executive Director
LEAD Pittsburgh

"If resilience education were incorporated early into college life, it would benefit campuses in many ways, because they would avoid a certain amount of increased individual difficulties with students, and that's wear and tear on the entire college campus.… There is no doubt in my mind that having a set of coping and resilience skills is just as important as whether I get an A or a B in a particular course."

David J. Kupfer, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

"Learning to be resilient is imperative in life; I don't know how you can go through life as well without it.… I think students will take away fewer scars of failure, rejection, and anxiety because they’ll know how to do things they might not have known had they not taken a course in resilience."

Sheila R. Fine
Chair, Board of Directors, and Principal Founder
LEAD Pittsburgh