How to build resilience in college students : developing a trauma-formed, strengths-based approach to student success / Cynthia A. Lietz (president's professor of social work, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, Arizona State University) and Breanna M. Carpenter Lietz (director, Office of the Chief Operating Officer and foster care advocate, Arizona State University, USA).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lietz, Cynthia A., author.

Lietz, Breanna M. Carpenter, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

How to guides (Cheltenham, UK)

How to guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--Mental health.

College students.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This insightful How to guide provides clear, evidence-based guidelines for activating and cultivating resilience in college students. Drawing on extensive research, Cynthia Lietz and Breanna Carpenter Lietz outline ten of the most important strengths that help college students overcome loss, trauma and other challenges which impact their well-being and academic performance. The authors argue that student services must be approached through a growth mindset. They propose actionable, student-focused strategies using social support structures, boundary setting, fostering belonging and personal value systems. Readers will be inspired by the personal narratives of resilience from ten current and recent college students and the authors' own lived experience as a college administrator and a first generation student with a background in foster care, making this a nuanced and highly practical book. Readers are shown how institutions can implement organizational-wide changes to reinforce individual interactions that are strengths-based and trauma-informed, creating an open and supportive ecosystem. How to Build Resilience in College Students is a crucial resource for college and university administrators, counselors and student services staff members. Faculty teaching in higher education and researchers focusing on young people will also benefit from the evidence-based insights and practical recommendations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Responding to the changing landscape of higher education

2. What does it really mean to be resilient?

3. A typology of resilience

4. Social support-longing to belong

5. Boundary setting-knowing when to say "no"

6. Insight-the importance of understanding ourselves and others

7. Communication-sharing stories of resilience matters

8. The healing power of humor

9. Learning to be agile

10. Initiative-when action is resilience

11. Commitment-an undeniable drive to accomplish a goal

12. A personal value system-a meaningful source of strength

13. Appraisal-finding meaning despite the pain

14. Developing a resilience-promoting, trauma-informed organizational culture and climate

15. Pulling it all together.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035365098 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.