ABSTRACT
Our valued contributors emanate from a range of disciplines and professional backgrounds, which has brought diversity of knowledge, values, professional cultures and approaches to well-being and resilience. Readers are challenged to listen to children more often and more effectively in relation to their well-being and to actively promote more opportunities to gain children’s voice through a participatory approach to care and education. A key aspect of our learning has been to understand that children benefit when moments of resilience are identified and celebrated with them. Childhood friendships, and both their negative and positive impact on resilience, have taught us that peer relationships are linked to a more positive school experience and higher levels of achievement. This chapter demonstrates the strength in multi-disciplinary approaches to children’s well-being and resilience. It provides opportunity for readers to compare and contrast childhood well-being and resilience in different nations.
