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Resiliency Success Skills features5 Skills for Resilience –

Researchers have identified 5 teachable skills of resilience that are often

described as core abilities that help people adapt, recover, and grow through challenges.

1. Self-Awareness – Recognizing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, and

understanding how they influence your responses to stress. This includes knowing your

strengths, limitations, and personal triggers.

2. Self-Regulation – Managing emotions, impulses, and reactions effectively, especially

under pressure. This skill involves staying calm, thinking clearly, and making deliberate

choices rather than reacting automatically.

3. Optimism – Maintaining a hopeful and realistic outlook, focusing on possibilities rather

than limitations. Optimism doesn’t ignore difficulties—it reframes them as challenges that

can be addressed.

4. Mental Agility – Seeing situations from multiple perspectives, being flexible in thinking,

and adapting strategies when circumstances change. This skill also includes problemsolving

and creative thinking.

5. Strengthening Connections – Building and maintaining supportive relationships and

seeking help when needed. Strong social connections provide emotional support,

practical help, and a sense of belonging.

Two other features of RSS are:

Resiliency Fitness Goals Chart for progress monitoring, success sharing, & goal setting

And

Let’s Make a PACT SocialProblem Solving Model

(Problem, Acceptable Options, Consequences, Take Action)!

– sample scenarios, student story telling, student story sharing

As with all the SSS programs, the SSS Foundational Skills Practice is embedded into the manual.