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Developing Resilience Skills and Social Competence in Youth in a School Setting

C

Catholic University of America (CUA)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Psychosocial Functioning

Treatments

Behavioral: Resilience Builder Program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment

169 patients

Sex

All

Ages

9 to 11 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • psychosocial deficits

Exclusion criteria

  • psychosis
  • extreme aggression
  • autism

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

169 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment
Experimental group
Description:
Received the Resilience Builder Program intervention
Treatment:
Behavioral: Resilience Builder Program
Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Did not receive the Resilience Builder Program

Trial contacts and locations

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