“…Resilience has predicted academic attainment in high school students (Capella & Weinsten, 2001;Gonzalez & Padilla, 1997;Martin & Marsh, 2006;Nota, Soresi & Zimmerman, 2004) where the conceptual frameworks of academic resilience and academic buoyancy have been developed to identify factors which may protect against stress (Martin & Marsh, 2008. Personal attributes including relatedness, a sense of mastery and spirituality (Prince-Embury, 2011;Kim & Esquivel, 2011) and support from parents and teachers (Bryan, 2005;Mullis, Rathge & Mullis, 2003;Prince-Embury, 2008) have contributed to resilience being used to underpin mental health services and academic success in school settings (Esquivel, Doll & Oades-Sese, 2011, Doll, Jones, Osborn, Dooley & Turner, 2011.…”