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Promoting Student Resilience and Wellbeing: Asia-Pacific Resilient Children and Communities Project

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The purpose of this chapter is to explore the association between resilience and wellbeing based on evidence from the ’Asia-Pacific Resilient Children and Communitiesș Project. The main research findings derived from the study were: (1) low resilience scores predispose individuals to mental health risks; and, (2) an intervention programme using a holistic school approach to promote resilience factors such as self-esteem/efficacy, school connectedness and personal integrity significantly promoted student wellbeing and prevented mental health problems.

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  1. Public Health, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Jing Sun

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Sun, J., Stewart, D.E. (2010). Promoting Student Resilience and Wellbeing: Asia-Pacific Resilient Children and Communities Project. In: Lovat, T., Toomey, R., Clement, N. (eds) International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8675-4_25

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