Building Resilience Skills

 

Resilience is the ability to adapt well, bounce back, and recover from challenging life events and changes. There are a number of ways that you can increase your ability to be resilient. HealthPoint EAP offers individual counseling, presentations, access to Mary Steinhardt’s online training, and options for further reading for you to use to build resiliency.

 

 

Increasing Your Personal Resilience

• Instructor: Mary Bade, Ph.D., EAP Staff Psychologist
• 1 hour presentation
• This training focuses on building resiliency skills to better adapt in changing, stressful environments. The skills covered in this presentation apply to being resilient in both work and personal areas of life. To bring this training to your department, contact Mary Bade at 512.471.3366. For a schedule of upcoming dates for this resiliency training, see http://sites.utexas.edu/eap/increasing-your-personal-resilience-at-work/

Transforming Lives Through Resilience Education: Mary Steinhardt’s Online Resilience Program

• 4 one hour online sessions
• Dr. Mary Steinhardt is a professor of Health Behavior and Health Education in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Steinhardt’s academic interests focus on the development and implementation of programs that enhance individual and organizational resilience. She has graciously agreed to share her online resilience training program, free of charge, with EAP clients. To gain access to the program, call the EAP office at 512.471.3366. Please note that once you access the program, you then have 2 weeks to finish the program. We are very grateful to Dr. Steinhardt for contributing to the resilience and wellness of faculty and staff!

The American Psychological Association Resilience Readings

• The Road to Resilience http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/road-resilience.aspx
• El Camino a la Resiliencia  http://www.apa.org/centrodeapoyo/resiliencia-camino.aspx

• Resilience Booster: Parent Tip Tool  http://www.apa.org/topics/parenting/tip-tool-brochure.pdf
• Resilience Guide: For Parents and Teachers  http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/resilience.aspx
• Guía de Resiliencia para Padres y Maestros  http://www.apa.org/centrodeapoyo/guia.aspx

• Resilience for Teens: Got Bounce?  http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/bounce.aspx
• Resiliencia para los Adolescents: Tienen Capacidad de Recuperación?  http://www.apa.org/centrodeapoyo/recuperacion.aspx

 Additional Readings

• How resilience works. D.L. Coutu (2002) Harvard Business Review 80(5), 46-55. https://hbr.org/2002/05/how-resilience-works

• Resilience at work: How to succeed no matter what life throws at you. S. R. Maddi & D.M. Khoshaba (2005). Full text of ebook available online through The University of Texas Library.

• Training for Mind-Body Resilience: Research explores how exercise can protect against the harmful effects of chronic stress. K. McGonigal (2013). IDEA Fitness Journal (April). Mind-Body Resilience by Kelly McGonigal