Principles for Realizing Resilience: A New View of Trauma and Inner Resilience

Drawing-Out Resilience in Children and High-Risk Adolescents via Exposing Them to Three Psycho-Spiritual Principles

“…The three principles intervention has been described in detail elsewhere [6,7], and has been applied in prevention [8], substance abuse treatment [9], trauma treatment [10][11][12], correctional counseling [13,14], mental health counseling [15][16][17], anger management [18], school violence prevention [19], intimate partner violence prevention [20], delinquency prevention [21], positive youth development [22,23], stress reduction [24], and community revitalization [25]. Kelley, et al [6] proposed and provided preliminary evidence in support of a process from exposure to the three principles to improved resilience.…”

Realizing Resilience in Trauma Exposed Juvenile Offenders: A Promising New Intervention for Juvenile Justice and Prevention Professionals

“…Banks further posited that people have innate mental health/ resilience they can realize, activate and sustain throughout life. While the three principles apply to everyone, this paper focuses on their application with trauma exposed juvenile offenders (for an in-depth description of these principles, see Kelley and Pransky 2013;Pransky and McMillen 2012;.…”

“…Effective three principles practitioners operate from a state of service and typically live in their own health, which they model for their young learners. In most cases these teachers have become this way because, after being exposed to these principles, they had their own insights regarding thought recognition and innate health via a clear mind (Kelley 2009;Pransky and Kelley 2013). Pransky (2003) stated, "To sum it up, effective principles-based teachers are those who generally live in a state of health and well-being themselves, who walk the talk, and who can draw out the health of others" (p. 164).…”

“…Several prominent three principles practitioners have authored publications that can assist juvenile justice and prevention professionals in understanding and teaching the three principles to trauma exposed juvenile offenders (e.g., Carlson and Bailey 1999;Kelley 2009Kelley , 2014Kelley and Pransky 2013;Mills 1995;Mills and Spittle 2001;G. Pransky 1990G.…”

“…The consensus of current trauma research is that effective interventions focus mainly on health and resilience, not dysfunction and punishment (Bonanno 2004;Bonanno and Mancini 2008;Cicchetti & Rogosch, 2009;Masten 2011). However, many juvenile justice and prevention professionals have not yet realized that by focusing on the health and resilience in trauma exposed young offenders they can help them recognize, re-kindle and sustain this health and reduce their problem behavior (Kelley 2009;Kelley and Pransky 2013). This paper describes a promising new intervention for trauma exposed young offenders that attempts to draw out their inner health/resilience and provide them with a new perspective on their past traumas that can prevent them from infecting the present.…”