Wednesday 22 July 08:15
- 09:45
Hall: 05 - Ottagonale
Chair:
Tam Cheuk Chi
Division: Division 8: Health Psychology
Psychological resilience has emerged important for mitigating negative stress influences and promoting psychosocial or behavioral health outcomes among youth exposed to long-term crisis. The emerging trajectory of resilience research embraces a novel perspective of the biopsychosocial-ecological systemic model, underscoring the integrative approaches that collaborate factors from a wide range of domains, from the intrapersonal systems (e.g., neurological and cognitive), external systems (e.g., social and community), to extra-personal systems (e.g., natural).
By gathering recent empirical findings from youth across diverse cultural contexts (i.e., African, Asian, and American), the symposium will present evidence in resilience promotion in line with the biopsychosocial-ecological perspective. Topics include the risk exposure in terms of climate change, COVID-19, HIV, economic inequality, and adverse early childhood experiences. Presentation will cover theoretical and clinical studies demonstrating how resilience could be improved through promotive and protective factors from various levels, including political (Presenter 1 [Dr. Sherr]; e.g., good referral mechanisms and poverty alleviation), interpersonal/family (Presenter 2 [Dr. Harrison]; e.g., neighborhood assets and social communication), intrapersonal/cognitive (Presenters 3 & 4 [Drs. Du & Zhou]; shift-and-persist coping strategies and self-compassion), and neurological (Presenter 5 [Dr. Lin]; brain network connectivity).
