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There are many ways to develop resilience, particularly through the building of resources, personal and interpersonal, to minimise the impact of stress. Personal qualities such as Dweck’s concept of mindset (see Chap. 2) or coping skills and interpersonal characteristics, such as relational skills, are strong contributors to resilience. What is clear is that to deal with situational factors or circumstances that occur throughout the life course, it is helpful to acquire the requisite life skills at an early age so that they can become part of one’s coping repertoire and be augmented during the different phases of development. To that end, a team of researchers at the University of Melbourne have embarked on the journey of developing coping skills in the early years in a systematic step by step fashion. It is never too early to teach coping skills.
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Frydenberg, E. (2017). Building Resilience Through Coping in the Early Years. In: Coping and the Challenge of Resilience. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56924-0_9
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