There is a stigma of mental illness associated with behavioral health. By focusing on educational practice, awareness is created without the stigma. Learning and practicing skills that manage stress help us to better deal with our challenges. We become more resilient.
These resilience practices emerged from a program originating from the University of Arizona and Southern Arizona VA Health Care System to address the reintegration of military veterans into an academic setting through resilience-based education. The practices are consistent with the recommendations of the World Health Organization for suicide prevention. Building upon the success of the veterans program, the semester-long classes have been redesigned for the general student population, medical education, and even as short-encounter instruction for families and first responders, to include EMS, Fire, and Law Enforcement. The resources presented on this site are intended to aid you in your personal resilience and to serve as foundational material for course development. Unless otherwise indicated, you are encouraged to use, adapt, improve upon, and share these resources in the spirit of the Creative Commons CC BY 4 International License. You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
We are a noncommercial educational endeavor providing best-practice and evidence-based methods intended to address our stressful lifestyles. Our intents are to note the sources of research as a further resource for you the reader and to recognize the efforts of the researchers. If we have overlooked or improperly identified research efforts, please contact us. Because we are unfunded, our ability to exhaustively test and evaluate program in diverse settings is limited. We therefore encourage you to investigate and share in a manner that allows others to both replicate and generalize results to best meet their desired applications and needs. These materials are provided to encourage development and research to improve the quality of our lives.
Contact: Phil Callahan PhD, resilienthacks@gmail.com
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