Fostering Resilience MHA
We all go through periods of stress and many of us have also experienced some kind of trauma. This course is built to teach anyone how to build the skill of resilience, which can help to protect against the impacts of stress and trauma. Based on up-to-date statistics from governing bodies and relevant scholarly articles, this series is full of learner focused activities, live-filmed videos and attractive animations. By taking this approximately 1 hour course, we hope that you will not only understand the impact of stress and trauma on mental health and physical wellbeing, but also know ways to measure and build your own resilience.
Course Overview
ESTIMATED COURSE LENGTH: 1 hr 6 mins.
TARGET AUDIENCE: Individuals, Employers, Caregivers, First Responders, Teachers, Attorneys, and other pertinent professionals
LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION: Introductory
PREREQUISITE(S): None
INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD: Self-paced; interactive; hybrid of audio, text, video, and learning checks
ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: Color contrast; transcripts of video components; closed captioning of audio and video components. To request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.
Learning Objectives
Course Learning Objectives:
What the learner should know upon course completion how to:
- Discuss the impact of stress and trauma on emotional and physical wellbeing.
- Define resilience, including the various ways it is conceptualized and measured.
- Describe ways to build resilience and protect against the impacts of stress and trauma at individual, community, and systems levels.
Course Outline
Pre-Course Assessment (~5 minutes)
Introduction (~10 minutes)
What is Resilience? (~2 minutes)
Stress and Trauma (~11 minutes)
Building Resilience (~33 minutes)
Conclusion (~10 minutes)
Post-Course Assessment (~11 minutes)
Participant Evaluation (5-10 minutes)
Experts
Abigail Asper, MSW
Abigail Asper was Psych Hub's Clinical Research Manager from 2019 to 2021. During her time at Psych Hub she was responsible for ensuring that Psych Hub videos and learning hubs are evidence-based, clinically sound, and trauma-informed as well, overseeing Psych Hub content research and continuing education initiatives. Along with lived experience of mental illness and losing a loved one to suicide, Ms. Asper has years of professional experience in mental health, social justice, and clinical settings. She earned a B.S. in Psychology from College of Charleston Honors College and a Master’s in Social Work from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. Before joining the Psych Hub team, she worked as an NGO Representative to the United Nations for the International Federation of Social Workers, a case manager on an assertive community treatment team for older adults with serious mental illnesses, a victim advocate at a rape crisis center, and a phone counselor at a crisis hotline. She is also a published author, editor, and researcher. Most recently, she was an editor of Behavioral Science in the Global Arena, Volume I , a text for which she authored two chapters: “Migrant Adaptation and Well-Being” and “Gender Equity and Reproductive Justice”.