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Learn about resiliency and protective factors that help teens adapt and recover from challenges, both external and internal. Discover how positive outlook and communication can strengthen resilience in facing personal stressors.
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Chapter 8, Lesson 4 Being a Resilient Teen
Vocabulary • Resiliency – the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis. • Protective factors – conditions that shield individuals from the negative consequences of expose to risk.
External factors and Internal factors that can affect resiliency. • External – family, school, community, peers, opportunities. • Internal – attitudes, perceptions, behaviors, commitment to learning, positive values, social competency, positive identity.
How do protective factors help a person avoid risk behaviors? • They can reduce harmful effects or influence a person to respond in a healthy way.
What are your personal stressors?What can you do to deal with them? • My stressors – demands of work, kids, family, schedules, mother • Planning, communication
A positive outlook strengthens resiliency? • By approaching things with a positive mindset, you are more likely to see the good in situations versus the negative and you are more likely to overcome obstacles with a positive mindset.