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Picturing Resilience Intervention (PRI)
The Picturing Resilience Intervention (PRI) is a group intervention designed to promote resilience and coping skills among youth following a disaster, community crisis, or other challenges resulting from the usual stresses of daily life. PRI blends Photovoice, a community participatory action method, with additional skill-building activities in order to enhance problem solving, coping, and self-expression in participating youth.
Participants are provided with cameras and instructions on basic photography and camera use. Then, five group sessions are conducted. Session topics include: Safety, challenges and stressors, strengths, coping skills, and resilience. During each session, a main topic is discussed and then followed by a skill-enhancing group activity and a photography homework activity. At the end of the group sessions, youth participants display their photography with accompanying written narratives in a final PRI exhibit.
The goals of PRI are to:
- Promote resilience and empowerment
- Foster healthy coping skills
- Encourage peer support
- Facilitate self-expression
- Develop photography skills
The activity should be facilitated by two mental health professionals, teachers, or adult professionals with experience working with youth. A common training approach to facilitating PRI is for providers to read the manual and then obtain ongoing support and consultation from PRI specialists as needed.
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- View educational material , English
- Handout: PRI information , English
- Form: Participant consent , English
- Photovoice examples: Photography and narrative-writing , English
- Handout: Photography safety and consent , English
- Handout: Safety and ethics scenarios , English
- Form: Subject consent , English
- Photovoice examples: Individual strengths and community resources , English
- Handout: Individual strengths and community resources , English
- Labeling cards: Individual strengths , English
- Form: Camera sign-out sheet , English
- Handout: Photography 101 , English
- Photography 101 , English
- Discussion prompts: Photography 101 memory matching activity , English
- Sample photographs: Photography 101 matching memory activity , English
- Photovoice examples: Youth challenges , English
- Discussion prompts: Youth challenges , English
- Handout: Coping skills , English
- Coping Bingo tokens , English
- Coping Bingo boards , English
- Coping Bingo call card , English
- Form: Photo favorites selection , English
- Discussion prompts: Photography sharing , English
- Worksheet: Youth photo narratives , English
- Discussion prompts: Closing group , English
- Post-project evaluation , English
- Photovoice examples: Individual strengths and community resources (PowerPoint File) , English
- Photovoice Examples: Youth Challenges (PowerPoint File) , English
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