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‘Resilience interventions do work’ – why coping strategies should be a staple of education

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The World Health Organization recently emphasised in its guidance to improve access to mental healthcare for young people.

The promise, and potential pitfalls, of resilience intervention may be found in the study of mindfulness training.

This involves the non-judgmental awareness of mental and bodily states without getting caught up in thoughts or feelings.

A recent meta-analysis concluded that resilience interventions can boost people’s wellbeing.

They are particularly effective at improving the trajectory of people who are already at a “moderate to high” risk of developing a mental illness.

Many of the strategies teach the same skills that can be learned during therapies such as CBT .

Resilience is not always an individual endeavour,’ says Liu Liu .

It’s also linked to resources that we have available at our disposal, our environment and the geopolitical climate’ Resolving those problems will be an even meatier task than the personal coping mechanisms.

Recent scientific advances offer some movements in the right direction.