Psychological Resilience for Parents is the tool all the parents need in their difficult parenthood role. Today, young people need a broader set of competences to find fulfilling jobs and become independent, engaged citizens who contribute to society. Educated, coscient, well equipped and supported parents - being the role models and capable educators - have a crucial role in enabling their children - young people to develop these competences, giving them the best possible start in life. Psychologically resilient parents tend to raise psychologically resilient children. "The Psychological Resilience for Parents" project recognises the need for building the competencies of parents to be more resilient and efficient on their parental role. The project aims to provide access to learning offers adapted to individual learning needs of parents. In context of the priority referring to the development of innovative learning tools and methods for the support of individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences to foster socio-educational and personal development; the project proposes the development of an innovative tools for parents to build capacities to improve psychological resilience into child-upbringing, thus their own and their children well-being. The project’s digital and interactive resources will also ensure the quality of access and infrastructure to diverse groups of parents (e.g. low qualified adults), in order to enhance key competences through non-formal learning and the effective use of digital technologies and open pedagogies in adult education and training. Project outputs will meet the parents needs and expectations in terms of tools for psychological and emotional balance, flexibility and variety of methods and applications. 1. "Resilience manual for parents" - manual with resilience program, tools, methodologies to work parents and children resilience skills, inspirational stories, case studies, FAQ and experts tips 2. “Activities and tools for parents” - tools and activities for parents to work on themselves and with kids 3. "Resilient parents" Multimedia platform with all the project materials, videos, webinars, inspirational stories, etc. are going to be design in an accessible way, easy to apply and manoeuvre through project digital resources for parents. 4. "Resilience Best Practice Report" - report from piloting and research showing the change in parents and their children, piloting results, best practices case studies and practical examples. Great need of accessible tools for parents helping them to deal with everyday stress, fast time progression and technological changes, new needs of children in changing times need new complex tools, not just one narrow methodology, but a complex and flexible set of methodologies and tools to apply in the best way for every individual need. In the web at the moment there are no other similar programmes available for this target group for free.
Parenthood is a difficult and responsible role and parental attitude influence children resilience. Positive mental health and well-being is crucial to enable children to lead fulfilling lives, both personally and socially as well as academically. However, child mental health problems are common, including anxiety and mood disorders, attention deficit, etc. It is widely recognised that childhood mental health difficulties impact on the quality of children’s lives and often persist into adulthood, negatively affecting they lives. It is imperative to prepare parents and give them complex and flexible tools to take care of their psychological resilience and mental wellbeing, and to raise their children for peaceful, balanced coping with emotions, conflicts and prevention of parents and children's burnout and excessive stress. On the canvas of all threats and challenges in parenthood, we can see how important it is to properly support and build mental resilience in parents. Appropriate programs operating in this area in conjunction with action on the level of education, access to medical and psychological care, support for parents and educators is the key to building a healthy, developing society with a high sense of well-being.
Today, young people need a broader set of competences to find fulfilling life. Educated, conscious, well equipped and supported parents - being the role models and capable educators - have a crucial role in enabling their children to develop these competences, giving them the best possible start in life. Psychologically resilient parents tend to raise psychologically resilient children. The Psychological Resilience for Parents project recognises the need for building the competencies of parents to be more resilient and efficient on their parental role. The project aims to provide access to learning offers adapted to individual learning needs of parents. In context of the priority referring to the development of innovative learning tools and methods for the support of individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences; the project proposed the development of an innovative tools for parents to build capacities to improve psychological resilience into child-upbringing, thus their own and their children well-being. The project’s flexible and complex resources ensure the parents' needs and expectations in terms of tools for psychological and emotional balance to apply in the best way for every individual need.