1. Being a Resilient Teen
Everyone goes through times of stress, disappointments, and difficulty.
When hardships and tragedies happen, it can be hard for people to cope with the situation and with their feelings.

2. Lesson Objectives In this lesson, you’ll learn to:
Explain what it means to be resilient.
Develop strategies to promote resiliency throughout the life span.
Explore methods for developing protective factors.
Evaluate how having protective factors helps people avoid risk behaviors.

3. What Is Resiliency? Resiliency
Being able to overcome disappointments and survive traumatic events is a sign of resiliency.
Resilient people can handle adversity in healthful ways and achieve long-term success.

4. Factors That Affect Resiliency
What Are Some Factors That Affect Resiliency?
Family
School or community
Peers
Opportunities to participate in school projects or community events
External
Factors
Internal
Factors

5. Resiliency and Your Protective Factors
What Are Protective Factors?
Your developmental assets also protect you from risk behaviors.
These assets are protective factors, which can reduce the harmful effects of a difficult or risky situation.
They may also influence a person to respond to a situation in a healthy way.

6. Resiliency and Your Protective Factors
Building Resiliency by Strengthening Your Protective Factors
Teens who do not have all their external protective factors in place can strengthen the ones they do have.
Develop a better relationship with the adult members of your family.
Find support from teachers, coaches, clergy, or other caring adults.

7. Resiliency and Your Protective Factors
Actions for Strengthening Your Internal Protective Factors
Become involved in extra-curricular activities.
Read for pleasure at least three hours per week.
Stand up for your beliefs.
Be honest with yourself and others.
Resist negative peer pressure.
Learn about people from other cultures.
Develop a sense of purpose.
Develop a positive outlook.

8. Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q. A condition that shields a person from the negative consequences of exposure to risk is a _____.
resiliency
Stress-management skill
relaxation response
protective factor

9. Quick Review - Answer
A. A condition that shields a person from the negative consequences of exposure to risk is a protective factor.
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10. Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. List three external factors and three internal factors that can affect a person’s resiliency.
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11. Quick Review - Answer
A. External factors affecting your resiliency include family, school or community, peers, and opportunities to participate in school projects or community events.
Internal factors include commitment to learning, positive values, social competency, and positive identity.
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12. Q. Define resiliency. Why is it important?
Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. Define resiliency. Why is it important?
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13. Quick Review - Answer
A. Resiliency is the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis. Resilient people are able to handle adversity in healthful ways and achieve long-term success in spite of negative circumstances.
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14. Quick Review Analyze the following situation.
Make a list of at least five of your personal stressors. What protective factors do you have or can you develop to help you deal with each one?

15. What Is Resiliency? Resiliency Resiliency
Being able to overcome disappointments and survive traumatic events is a sign of resiliency.
Resilient people can handle adversity in healthful ways and achieve long-term success.
Resiliency is the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.

16. Resiliency and Your Protective Factors
What Are Protective Factors?
Your developmental assets also protect you from risk behaviors.
These assets are protective factors, which can reduce the harmful effects of a difficult or risky situation.
They may also influence a person to respond to a situation in a healthy way.
Protective factors are conditions that shield individuals from the negative consequences of exposure to risk.

17. Factors That Affect Resiliency
What Are Some Factors That Affect Resiliency?
Commitment to learning: Being actively engaged in your education.
Positive values: Demonstrating these values through your words and actions, and avoiding risks.
Social competency: Having empathy and friendship skills.
Positive identity: Having self-esteem and a sense of purpose.
External
Factors
Internal
Factors

18. Quick Review - Answer
A. Correct! A condition that shields a person from the negative consequences of exposure to risk is a protective factor.
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19. Quick Review - Answer
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