Developing Resilience Skills and Social Competence in Youth in a School Setting
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Psychosocial Functioning
- Sponsor
- The Catholic University of America
- Enrollment
- 169
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Resiliency scales for children and adolescent (RSCA)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
Our study aimed to answer the question: Can a resilience-based intervention improve the psychosocial and educational outcomes of students with psychosocial difficulties? We examined the effectiveness of a resilience-based group intervention, the Resilience Builder Program® (RBP), with students in low-SES school settings to determine if this treatment improves psychosocial and educational outcomes.
Detailed Description
Enhancing resilience is valuable to youth from economically marginalized communities given that they often face greater challenges and hardships than their peers from more affluent communities. Efforts to increase resilience skills in these youth are hampered because they disproportionately encounter barriers in access to mental health interventions. Implementing school-based services may be optimal to address these inequalities. This project explores the effectiveness of a school-based group intervention (the Resilience Builder Program®) related to resilience and academic functioning in a sample of children from economically marginalized communities. Students (N = 169) with social-emotional difficulties were recruited from five elementary schools and randomly assigned to participate in the Resilience Builder Program® (RBP) immediately or following a semester delay. Participants, their parents, and teachers completed measures of resilience and academic functioning. Repeated-measures analysis of variance compares groups across time (pre-, post-intervention) on psychosocial and academic outcomes.
Investigators
Brendan Rich
Associate Professor
The Catholic University of America
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •psychosocial deficits
Exclusion Criteria
- •psychosis
- •extreme aggression
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Resiliency scales for children and adolescent (RSCA)
Time Frame: 1 month
self-report of child's resilience; score 0-100; higher scores = stronger resilience
Secondary Outcomes
- Behavior assessment system for children, 2nd edition (BASC)(1 month)