Deadline extended: January 13, 2017, 11:59 PM CST
Conference Dates: April 17 - 19, 2017
ResilienceCon goals include: 1) shifting research, prevention, and intervention on violence and other adversities to a focus on strengths and resilience, and 2) “disrupting” the usual conference format to create a more interactive, forward-looking, think-tank approach. We hope to contribute to a path forward to a more strengths-based approach to research, prevention, and intervention.
To this end, we are offering a range of innovative and traditional presentation formats.
There will also be other opportunities, including the chance to participate in a format from the writing community called First Pages (see below), and sessions on communication techniques. The conference will also feature a Resilience Trade Show, which will be an opportunity to browse tools for strengths-based measurement, assessment, prevention, and intervention.
Program Topics
We invite submissions on all aspects of resilience and adversity, including:
- Protective factors for all aspects of the social ecology, including characteristics of individuals, families, schools, and communities
- Strength and resilience among people and communities of color
- Cross-cultural and international research on strengths or resilience (note that posters may be submitted in English, Spanish, or French)
- Resilience across the full spectrum of sexual and gender identities
- Gender differences and related factors, such as the impact of rigid gender roles and peer networks on resilience
- Community resilience and the need for addressing health disparities and other systemic issues
- Resilience in children
- Resilience and rehabilitation in criminal justice and other offender settings
- Promoting resilience among active military personnel and veterans
- Aspects of well-being, health, and other resilient outcomes
- Understanding the links between violence & other adversities, protective factors, and resilient outcomes
- Understudied aspects of coping and well-being, such as benefits of sports, exercise, religious involvement, familism, and traditions
- Developmental or other longitudinal studies of strengths or resilience
- Strengths-based approaches to prevention, such as social and emotional learning (SEL), cultural connectedness, redefining masculinity, and bystander programs
- Strengths-based interventions, including but not limited to mindfulness, narrative, and skill-building programs
- Strengths-based approaches to working with historically under-served and/or stigmatized groups
- Applications of resilience and strengths-based approaches to criminal justice settings
- Post-traumatic growth
- Trauma-informed care
- Resilience and schools, including school climate and social networks
- The impact of poly-victimization and/or poly-perpetration on resilience
Visit this website to submit online. You will need the following information to submit: Title; 200-300 word abstract; presenter’s name, affiliation, and contact information; co-authors’ names, affiliations, and emails; 2 learning objectives; and conflict of interest certification.
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