Each of the titled sections in the Home page is intended to provide you with both the learning process and the resource materials to make you successful with your exploration and learning. This Resources page provides only the resource materials. These resources include additional readings, handbook for resilience, a resilience App that parallels the handbook, and a comprehensive diagnostic tool, CatTrax, for educators and trainers designing instruction and evaluating instructional effectiveness.
Suicide, PTSD and StressA brief literature review completed in the spring of 2016 discusses high-risk professions, risk factors, interventions, and protective factors. More » |
More on PersistenceA brief look at goal setting as a method for persisting with a challenge. Includes a brief literature review completed in the spring of 2016 that discusses history and process. More » |
More on StrengthHealth-related physical activity shows more desirable health outcomes across a variety of physical conditions. In general, exercise and physical activity are associated with better quality of life and health outcomes. A look at evidence-based diet and exercise plans in a literature review from spring, 2016. More » |
Self Evaluation: Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS)A quick and easy way to measure your level of stress is the Subjective Units of Stress Scale (SUDS) that ranges from 0 or no stress to 10 greatest stress. The SUDS can be particularly useful when, for example, measuring yourself before and after working on a personal challenge, as described in the Basic Resilience Exercises, or perhaps a breathing exercise to monitor your stress level change. SUDS PDF » |
Evaluating Resilience LearningSeveral layers of testing are available for organizations seeking a level of accountability. Firstly, the freely available Response to Stressful Experiences Scale (RSES), general resilience test may be used for adults as a pre-instruction and post-instruction test. The Response to Stressful Experiences Scale is for adults and available through GSA. RSES PDF ». If testing as a group, then consider allowing the participants to use an alias as a name on the test as it provides more reliable results. Expect to see statistically significant gains in groups of about ten or more people after two to three hours of learning. Secondly, there are personal learning and change of behavior assessments following each skill in the Basic Resilience Exercises. These can be used formatively for discussion to provide both the learner and the facilitator with useful feedback. |
Basic Resilience Exercises
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Woody
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Hero's Journey Resilience Application Download Resilience Application. Download the entire app and run it on your own device. Download, unzip, start your browser and Open the index.html file in the FiveSkillApp folder to run this on your browser. Additionally, the app is constructed as simple HTML and Javascript pages to permit easy editing and modification should you wish to alter this app for your instruction. Resilience App zip » |
CatTrax Diagnostic Application
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Basic Resilience Exercises are concise applied activites written to a grade 8 - 9 reading level. The exercises, built around the Hero's Journey theme, develop problem solving abilities by applying positive-coping skills to create less stressful outcomes to real life challenges. Each exercise is organized into two double-sided pages allowing for easy use in group settings. The material is consistent with World Health Organization recommendations for suicide prevention. 
For younger learners, Woody explores the Hero's Journery. Woody is written at a 4th grade reading level and is illustrated. Woody encourages building social support, self-esteem, self-efficacy (believing you are capable of reaching a goal), and problem solving skills. It recognizes that it is okay to change one's beliefs as we learn new ideas. 
A very simple a web-based app that parallels the content of the five skill resilience in the Resilience Exercises and the Resilience Workbook, journals your learning, and further allows you to create your own resilience skills. The app permits exploration of a personal challenge using any of the skills. All data is stored locally on your computer or device. 
Are you involved in instruction, training, or program evaluation? CatTrax is a diagnostic program that works with almost any test results to potentially improve learning and curriculum design. It can be used to tailor new learning to diverse settings and audiences whether through classroom-oriented instruction or non-traditional instructional methods. It can help identify not only what is easy or hard, but areas of curricular confusion, as well as learners who may be experiencing confusion. CatTrax initially provides a brief plain English description identifying problematic student related issues. Next a more detailed graphical and tabled results provides summary results for each student, their correctness score, standard error or measurement, true measure of ability, z-score, and caution index. The caution index established by Sato, Harnish and Linn, assigns a numeric value based on the observed versus the expected responses. Cautionary students show patterns that are atypical of their group, and thus provides an opportunity to address a potentially ‘at-risk’ learner at an early stage when remediation is viable. Item analysis provides test item correctness, difficulty level, discrimination index, and a caution index in either split-half or split-third formats depending upon class size. Cautionary test items may be the result of a poorly written item, ethnic, experiential, gender, or instructional bias or where a potential mismatch between instructional practices and content occurs and results in learner confusion. CatTrax diagnostics is a PHP server-based program, yet a powerful institutional server is not needed. Any Windows, Mac, Linux, or even Raspberry Pi 3/4 single board computer can run it with Apache or a lighter server. With the exception of a sample test data file (input.csv), the unzipped CatTrax contents reside in the server HTML directory. Alternatively, CatTrax can be run as a "non-server" application using PHPs built-in server -- meaning, you do not need to install Apache or other server software. Diagnostic results are generated on the fly and viewable in your browser. A CSV formatted results file can also be generated for spreadsheet or other use. Try it in Diagnostics and Evaluation.