The Tutor of Resilience Program with Children Who Have Experienced Maltreatment: Mothers’ Involvement Matters

Giordano, Francesca; Salimbeni, C. Taurelli; Jefferies, Philip

doi:10.1007/s10578-022-01393-w

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“…Previous studies conducted in war settings have shown that recovery, sustainability and growth are highly dependent on the protective resources available to the community and the strengths that are nurtured before and during the negative event ( Zautra et al, 2010 ; Ungar, 2011 ). Based on this assumption, the current study examined protective processes described by Ukrainian youth undergoing training in the Tutor of Resilience Program (ToR; Giordano et al, 2021 , 2022 ) to promote resilience with peers in their communities during the early months of the war. The ToR Program offers a model of building resilience during emergencies that is flexible to meet the contextual, cultural, and individual needs of participants and communities.…”

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Resilience processes among Ukrainian youth preparing to build resilience with peers during the Ukraine-Russia war

Giordano,

Lipscomb,

Jefferies

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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The war in Ukraine significantly impacts the mental health and well-being of its youth. Like other communities affected by war, Ukraine’s youth are at risk of developing psychopathological symptoms, and there is a shortage of mental health and psychosocial support services to address this. Resilience-building initiatives present an alternative approach to supporting the well-being of young people by promoting protective processes to enhance the likelihood of positive development in the context of adversity. Emerging research findings suggest that young people themselves can serve as powerful facilitators of such initiatives with one another. Yet, evidence about culturally and contextually relevant protective processes is needed to guide such interventions, especially among young people experiencing the war and working to boost resilience within their communities. In this study, we identified key protective processes Ukrainian youth depend on as they adapt to the conflict while also preparing to implement a resilience-building intervention as a facilitator. Through thematic analysis of transcripts of three training sessions with Ukrainian youth (n = 15, 100% female; aged 18–22), we identified the following themes: positive thinking, sense of control, emotion awareness and regulation, close personal relationships, and community support. Findings also highlighted the cultural and contextual nuance of these protective processes, as well as individual differences in the ways they co-occurred and manifested within each youth. Results have implications for developing tailored yet flexible resilience-building interventions that can be delivered by lay people, including youth with their peers, in Ukraine and other cultures and contexts.

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Resilience processes among Ukrainian youth preparing to build resilience with peers during the Ukraine-Russia war

Giordano,

Lipscomb,

Jefferies

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective

Wang,

Liu,

et al. 2024

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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Building a coordinated response to prevent and respond to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Europe: The Tutor of Resilience program

Giordano¹,

Cipolla²

2023

Maltrattamento E Abuso All'infanzia

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Over the last decades, EU institutions have pushed Member States towards substantial review of National child protection systems along the interdisciplinary and multi-agency collaboration between key actors in the child protection system and the capacity building of professionals on effective actions to prevent, identify and respond to violence against children. Resilience is the process of multiple biological, psychological, social, and ecological systems interacting in ways that help individuals to regain, sustain, or improve their mental wellbeing when challenged by one or more risk factors. Based on these assumptions, the Tutor of Resilience (ToR) training program was delivered within the European program against child maltreatment "PEARLS for Children", to build up a multisectoral network of professionals - medical care practitioners, educators, social services providers and police officers - trained to build resilience in children and families dealing with the critical developmental milestones for the onset of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), in Italy, Lithuania, and Poland. The ToR included 6 phases: needs assessment to identify each professional category's educational gaps in ACEs; the ToR initial training and the action plan design based on the resilience-enabling principles delivered during the training; the ToR program implementation professionals conduct on the field; the follow-up after 5/6 months of program implementation, followed by a set of cascade trainings based on the ToR model, delivered by the 70 trained professionals to 221 professionals belonging to the 4 target professional category in the 3 countries. At the end, an international closure meeting was conducted to share multi-sectoral lessons learned, results, and sustainability of the ToR program.

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The Tutor of Resilience Program with Children Who Have Experienced Maltreatment: Mothers’ Involvement Matters

Cited by 3 publications

References 90 publications

Resilience processes among Ukrainian youth preparing to build resilience with peers during the Ukraine-Russia war

Resilience processes among Ukrainian youth preparing to build resilience with peers during the Ukraine-Russia war

Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective

Building a coordinated response to prevent and respond to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Europe: The Tutor of Resilience program

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