Date of Award
2003
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Department
Programs for Higher Education
Advisor
Lucile Beisner
Committee Member
Karen Kimball
Committee Member
Barbara Packer
Keywords
activities, adjustment to environment, administrators, coping, counselor, middle school students, Nan Henderson, parents, persistence, resiliency, resiliency level, Resiliency Skills and Abilities Scale, resiliency training, rural school, school climate, school setting, self esteem, staff development, stress management, student readiness, students, teachers, The Resiliency Training Program, Training of Trainers
Abstract
This study was designed to investigate the effects that resiliency training had upon a selected group of students in a rural school with a student population of approximately 600. Planned solution strategies included staff development training and implementing activities to establish the school climate and student readiness.
Resiliency Skills and Abilities Scale was used as a pretest, a 45-item survey to determine resiliency scores, before implementing resiliency skills. Training from The Resiliency Training Program, a Training of Trainers by Nan Henderson, M.S.W. was used as an intervention strategy. The intervention strategies involved a section of sixth-grade students, teachers, counselor, administrators, and parents.
The Resiliency Skills and Abilities Scale was administered as a posttest to students at the end of the training to measure any changes in their resiliency level. An analysis of the data and teacher perception revealed that participants’ resiliency level increased as a result of resiliency training in a school setting.