NPR "Talk of the Nation"
Focuses on the Topic of Resiliency

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	Nan Henderson, M.S.W., in the KPBS studio in San Diego preparing to speak on "Talk of the Nation"

 

"What is resiliency?" "How do people become resilient?" "Can you teach resiliency?" and "What does research tell us about how to help people be resilient?" were some of the questions posed by Neal Conan, host of the National Public Radio Program "Talk of the Nation" to Nan Henderson and other resiliency experts during the July 16, 2002 program.

Ms. Henderson, President of Resiliency In Action, has been reviewing the research on human resiliency and training and writing on the topic for the past 12 years. She emphasized the information about resiliency detailed in The Resiliency Quiz (on this web site), and she explained how the resiliency-building actions described in the Quiz have helped people recover from the events of 9/11. Other program guests were Social Work Professor David Miller, who shared his personal resiliency journey as an African American son of an unwed mother as well as his research on resiliency in African American teenagers, and Edith Grotberg, senior researcher on the International Resilience Research Project, who discussed her finding that resiliency is a human capacity across cultures.

Listeners had the opportunity to call with questions or to submit them by e-mail. Some discussed their own process of resiliency; others asked questions related to defining resiliency, resiliency programming, and how to best teach resiliency.

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