Format

Individual Presentation

First Presenter's Institution

University of West A

First Presenter’s Email Address

ahollingsworth@uwa.edu

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Mary Ann Hollingsworth is an associate professor at the University of West Alabama. She has eighteen years of experience as a counselor, 20 years experience as an officer of the United States Army, and 12 years experience teaching in higher education. She currently teaches students preparing to be school and community mental health counselors Her primary research interests and innovative work have been on learning and counseling through a paradigm of wellness and the whole person and service learning to promote skills building and difference-making with communities.

Second Presenter's Institution

NA

Location

Session Eight Breakouts

Strand #1

Health: Mental & Physical Health

Strand #2

Head: Academic Achievement & Leadership

Relevance

This presentation shares lessons learned from youth going through the Covid-19 pandemic on what helped them to sustain and build resilience for mental and physical health and for academic achievement while experiencing the pandemic and for ongoing life resilience in these areas after the pandemic.

Brief Program Description

Out of the mouths of youth themselves while in the Covid-19 pandemic - pathways to build and sustain resilience in the life challenges that come our way at all stages of life.

Summary

This presentation shares information gathered from 172 youth in various areas of the country on what prepared them for and sustained them through the Covid-19 pandemic. This information was gathered from graduate students in a human growth and development course, with information focusing on four aspects:

  • What life factors before the pandemic helped the young person survive and thrive in the pandemic.
  • What life factors before the pandemic hindered the young person to survive and thrive in the pandemic.
  • What did the young person have during the pandemic that helped to survive and thrive during the pandemic?
  • What did the young person have during the pandemic that challenged their capacity to survive and thrive during the pandemic?

Answers for these four areas were captured by graduate students into pathways of building resilience for life’s challenges and pathways for surviving and thriving in the midst of life’s challenges. These individual student answers were then blended into a set of strategies that adult workers with youth could use to proactively promote resilience building throughout all phases of life as youth as both knowledge and skills. The strategies also included focused areas to promote youth development in knowledge and skills for events of life challenge – a “what to do when in crisis” framework.

The presentation will share information collected through the student work across several course sections as well as suggested strategies for the presentation audience to take with them to use in their own current work with youth. Access information for relevant resources with these strategies will also be shared with audience participants.

Evidence

Hollingsworth, M.A. (2020, December). Living through a pandemic: How students cope. Proceedings of the Educational Sciences Conference, European Scientific Institute/European Journal of Educational Sciences, Virtual, December, 10, 2020

Hollingsworth, M.A. (2020, January). Educator intervention in chronic trauma:. Building student resilience. Proceedings of the S.T.E.A.M & Education Conference, Honolulu, HI

Hollingsworth, M.A. (2019) Editor, Special Edition: “Resilience building for children with chronic trauma: Promising work by educators.” European Journal of Educational Sciences. Special Edition (October, 2019),

Learning Objective 1

Participants will be able to increase awareness of pre-trauma or crisis event life factors that influence surviving and thriving during such an event.

Learning Objective 2

Participants will be able to increase awareness of strategies they can employ in work with youth to promote pre-trauma or crisis event resilience building and diminishment of risk factor impact.

Learning Objective 3

Participants will be able to identify resources to support strategy building and implementation for helping youth to survive and thrive life challenges well through enhancement of personal resilience.

Keyword Descriptors

Pandemic resilience, strategies for youth workers and educators, building youth resilience

Presentation Year

2022

Start Date

3-9-2022 9:45 AM

End Date

3-9-2022 11:00 AM

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Mar 9th, 9:45 AM Mar 9th, 11:00 AM

Pathways to Resilience: Lessons Learned from Covid-19

Session Eight Breakouts

Out of the mouths of youth themselves while in the Covid-19 pandemic - pathways to build and sustain resilience in the life challenges that come our way at all stages of life.