ABSTRACT
Schools offer important opportunities to prevent mental health problems by promoting resilience. When children go to school, they are cocooned within a time and space where they can learn to create their protective layers and shed their vulnerable ones to become who they truly are. 'Emotion coaching' is a whole-school approach to developing more nurturing relationships in schools that support sustainable emotional health and well-being in children and young people. The use of a resilience framework in schools, therefore, allows for a solution-focused examination of student strengths, as opposed to their difficulties. R. Gilligan has noted the protective value of positive school and extra-curricular experiences on young people. His paper argues for the value of resilience as a key concept in work with young people in need and considers some of the implications of a resilience-led approach for policy and practice.
