Welcome to FRIENDS RESILIENCE
Learn effective and sustainable Resilience Skills with FRIENDS Resilience and join our global community for lasting wellbeing. We offer curricula designed to support children, youth, and adults at every stage of life.
Curricula for All Ages
Comprehensive resilience skills for every stage of life
Fun Friends
Young Children
Helps young children build the social and emotional skills by using fun, play-based activities. Early resilience skills build confidence for a smooth transition into school life.
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Friends For Life
Children
Recognised by the World Health Organisation, FRIENDS for Life is an interactive social skills and resilience curriculum. It equips children with strategies to reduce anxiety and rise to life's challenges.
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My Friends Youth
Youth
This curriculum empowers young people to manage stress and normalise anxiety in the developmental stage. It gives them tools to face life with confidence.
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Adult Resilience
Adults
Providing coping and resilience skills for adults of all ages. It is never too late to learn positive ways to adapt and thrive. This curriculum uses evidence-based strategies to boost wellbeing and help you face challenges.
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Trusted worldwide for over 30 years
The FRIENDS RESILIENCE SKILLS have been acknowledged by the World Health Organisation as best practice for the prevention of anxiety and depression.
Our books and resources have developmentally appropriate techniques for different age groups, from young children to adults. The Friends Resilience Skills are updated regularly to integrate innovative, state of the art concepts and techniques, proved effective by published, peer reviewed research.
We are globally recognized and constantly improving. We have just released our 10th edition of Friends' curricula.
Start Building Family Resilience
We have developed a new 'Start Building Family Resilience' program. It offers a preventative strategy to help people cope with the loss of loved ones and illness in the family. It helps to provide people with positive coping skills.
Learn moreAll About FRIENDS
The FRIENDS programs are designed to build life-long resilience in individuals, families and communities. Here is a video from those whose lives have flourished as a result of undertaking the program.
How can FRIENDS help you?
One in five children and adolescents have an anxiety disorder. A child or adolescent experiencing an anxiety disorder may experience inhibited personal development, academic underachievement, social isolation or depression. The FRIENDS programs were developed to empower those undertaking the program with the skills necessary to not only manage and prevent anxiety, but become engaged and thriving individuals.
In addition to being acknowledged by the World Health Organisation, the FRIENDS Programs are proven to be effective in promoting social and emotional skills cross-culturally. The skill sets acquired through FRIENDS programs are intended for long term use. With occasional refreshers these skills can be maintained for many years following the completion of the program.
Dr Paula Barrett
“ From what is wrong, to what is strong ”
FRIENDS Resilience was founded by Dr Paula barrett, a clinician, researcher, and professor in child psychology. She is recognized among the top one percent of publishers in Psychology and Psychiatry globally. Dr Barrett is the creator of the FRIENDS Programs, which use cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to build resilience in families, schools, and communities.
