Live webinar air date: September 26, 2025, 9 a.m. Eastern time
Date
CE credits
2
Exam items
15
Series
Child and Adolescent Development
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Description
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from and adapt well to hardships, difficulties and challenges. Risk of suffering, and protective factors promoting resilience, can be external (traumas, family function, and educational opportunities) or internal (temperament, biological predispositions, learning disabilities, and self-control). Why do some individuals fare better than others in the same environment and circumstances? Sixty years of longitudinal research identify multiple factors that help individuals thrive despite adversity. In this keynote presentation, through case examples, we’ll explore specific strategies to promote the set of skills that enhance resilience, social competence and self-regulation in children and teens—across multiple settings and difficulties.
This program is part of the Professional Development Training Institute on Child and Adolescent Development.
Learning objectives
- List four protective factors of resilience.
- Describe two strategies to foster social competence in youth.
- Demonstrate two self-regulation strategies.
- Develop a treatment plan using protective factors to guide treatment objectives and strategies that enhance generalization across settings.
Presenter
Mary Alvord, PhD
Alvord is a licensed psychologist with more than 40 years of experience. She founded Alvord, Baker & Associates and Resilience Across Borders. Her work focuses on enhancing resilience in children and teens. An APA fellow, she contributed to APA’s public education guides and APA/CDC’s resilience modules on building student resilience for teachers. She co-authored the Resilience-Builder Program: Enhancing Social Competence and Self-Regulation, Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens, and The Action Mindset Workbook for Teens, and self-regulation audio recordings.
