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Thinking skills that help us bounce back
Children as young as two mimic the coping and thinking styles
of adults around them. RIRO's evidence-based skills training program
helps adults model a resilient response to life’s stresses and
opportunities in their daily interactions with young children.
This section introduces the Resiliency
Guidebook
and Skills Videos,
resources for content covered in RIRO's skills training program
(See below).
For more information about the skills training program, please
contact: info@reachinginreachingout.com.
About the Training Program
The training program adapts a cognitive-behavioral and social
problem-solving approach developed by Dr. Martin Seligman and
his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania* to introduce
children to resiliency thinking skills. Resiliency thinking skills
help children bounce back from life’s inevitable pressures and
prevent them from developing life views that can lead to depression
and aggression.
*RIRO training content is adapted from: Gillham,
J.E., Jaycox, L.H., Reivich, K.J., Seligman, M.E.P., & Silver,
T. (1990).The Penn Resiliency Program. Unpublished manuscript.;
and Reivich, K.J., & Shatté, A.J. (2002). The Resilience
Factor. New York: Broadway Books.
Guidebook
NEW!
The Resiliency Guidebook is divided into three sections, each
providing an overview of important information about resilience
and resiliency promotion in children.
Download the entire Resiliency
Guidebook (6Mb PDF)
Section 1 contains seven Resiliency Guides, each followed
by a brief summary of key points.
Section 2 presents four Resiliency Guides containing strategies and resources to help children foster a resilient outlook
Section 3 (419Kb PDF) introduces information about activities, research findings, training programs and dissemination of Reaching IN…Reaching OUT as well as selected resources about resilience
Skills Videos
Seven video segments provide an introduction to some user-friendly
thinking skills that help us deal with adversity and promote resilience.
Viewers will hear from professionals in pilot childcare centres
who are using the resiliency skills every day in their work with
young children.
(To enlarge the video on the screen, please right click on the
video and select "Video
Size" and then "200%")
1. Resilience Information (1 min 19 sec) – We can learn to be resilient
by changing the way we think about the stressful circumstances
we encounter.
2. The ABC model (4 mins) –The ABC model helps us understand our own and other’s
reactions to adversity and stressful circumstances.
3. Explanatory Style (4 mins) – “Thinking habits” can help or hinder our
resilient response to stressful circumstances
4. Challenging Beliefs (2 mins 21 sec) – We can challenge our non-resilient “thinking
habits.”
5. Generating Alternatives (2 mins 25 sec) – Flexible thinking helps us
find more than one way to think about and handle stressful circumstances.
6. Putting It into Perspective (3 mins 33 sec) – Gaining perspective helps
us challenge catastrophic thinking.
7. Calming & Focusing (3 mins 6 sec) – Calming down “in-the-moment” helps
us to think about stressful situations with a more resilient perspective.
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