Resource Guide

Resource Guide

• “Dealing with Trauma and Loss: Practical Strategies for Enhancing Resilience” pamphlet (PDF, 284K) – NEA Health Information Network, 2002.
  https://www.neahin.org/resources/docs/Resilience-Brochure.pdf

• NEA Crisis Communications Guide & Toolkit (Vol. 1-4) – National Education Association, (2000).
  http://www.nea.org/crisis

• Promoting resilience in an “at-risk” world. – Angela M. Oddone, Childhood Education: Infancy Through Early Adolescence, Vol. 78(5), 274-277 (Annual Theme, 2002).

• Resilience Education – Joel H. Brown, Marianne D’Emidio-Caston, and Bonnie Benard. Corwin Press, 2001. Email: [email protected].

• Resilience in Schools: Making It Happen for Students and Educators – Nan Henderson and Mike M. Milstein. Corwin Press, 1996. E-mail: [email protected]. See also http://www.resiliency.com.

• Resilience: Status of the Research and Research-Based Programs (Working Paper) – Nancy J. Davis. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, 1999.
  http://www.mentalhealth.org/schoolviolence/5-28resilience.asp

• Teaching students to be peacemakers. – Johnson and Johnson, Research/Practice, Vol. 4(3), 10-19 (1996).

• The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and In Life – Jean Baker Miller and Irene Pierce Stiver, Beacon Press, 1997.

• Violence in Communities and Schools: A Stress Reduction Guide for Teachers and Other School Staff (PDF, 290K) – NEA Health Information Network and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, 2001.
  https://www.neahin.org/resources/docs/Stress-Guide-pdf.pdf

  Stress Self-Assessment (accompanies section III)

  • On Paper/Self-Scoring Version (PDF, 43K)
    https://www.neahin.org/resources/docs/ stress_self_assessment.pdf

 

Additional Recommended Resources

Books, Articles

• Benson, P. Scales, P.C., Leffert, N., Roehlkepartain, E.C. (1999). A Fragile Foundation: The State of Developmental Assets Among American Youth. Search Institute, ISBN 1-57482-352-3.
• Benson, P. (1997). All Kids Are Our Kids. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Bickart, T.S. and Wolin, S. (November 1997). Practicing resilience in the elementary classroom. Principal.
• Bosworth, K. and Earthman, E. (2002). From theory to practice: School leadersí perspectives on resiliency. Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 58(3), 299-306.
• Bosworth, K. (2000). Protective Schools. Tucson, AZ: College of Education, University of Arizona.
• Burke, Robert (Spring, 2002). Social and emotional education in the classroom. Kappa Delta Pi Record, Vol. 38(3), 108-111).
• Dill, V.S. (1998). A Peaceable School. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
• Katz, M. (1997). On Playing a Poor Hand Well. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
• Noddings, N. (1992). The Challenge to Care in School: An Alternative Approach to Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Pipher, M. (1996). The Shelter of Each Other. New York: Ballantine Books.
• Rutter, M., Maughan, B., Mortimore, P., Ouston, J. and Smith, A. (1979). Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and Their Effects on Children. London: Open Books.
• Scales, P. and Leffert, N. (1999). Developmental Assets. Minneapolis: Search Institute.
• Schorr, L. (1989). Within Our Reach. New York: Anchor Books.
• Schorr, L. (1997). Common Purpose. New York: Anchor Books.
• Werner, E.E. and Smith, R.S. (1982). Vulnerable But Not Invincible. New York: McGraw-Hill Books.

Videos, Web Sites, Organizations

• NEA Safe Schools Now Network video series. Series of nine television programs, each with an accompanying resource and discussion guide. Episode #6, ìViolence-Related Stress: A Guide for School Staff,î a 45-minute show produced in collaboration with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), features a segment on the Tucson Resiliency Initiative at La Cima Middle School.

• Resiliency In Action, Inc., P.O. Box 90319, San Diego, CA 92169-2319, (800) 440-5171, Email: [email protected].

• Search Institute, 700 South Third Street, Suite 210, Minneapolis, MN 55415, (800) 888-7828.

• Tucson Resilience Initiative. Local initiative in Tucson, Arizona involving schools and the community to nurture the innate resilience of youth.

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