Overview

The APS hosts this webinar with the APS Positive Psychology Interest Group.

Stress and coping are arguably one of the most widely researched areas in the field of psychology. Whilst the stress literature focuses on what our concerns are and strains coping is what we do about our stresses and worries. 

From the key foundational researchers in the field of coping, there has been a positive psychological focus on how we appraise situations and how we build our resources, both personal and interpersonal. Since coping and resilience have entered our everyday vernacular, they have helped raise our awareness and skill level but there is more to life than just what we do to manage circumstances, thus the concept of fortitude adds value and meaning.

Doing good amongst individuals and communities, helps us to have meaning and purpose, and adds to the positive approaches to health and wellbeing incorporated in the positive psychology movement.

This webinar will cover:

• foundational theories of coping,

• an introduction to measurement and conceptualisation across the life-span, 

• consider what we know and what we can utilise in professional practice, and since the field has practical applications, the tools can be used both for measurement and intervention, and

• the relationship between coping, resilience and fortitude.

Level of Learning

Foundational. This activity is targeted to those new to the topic.

Duration of access

This webinar will be recorded.

Participants will have access to the recording and presenter slides (once available) for 12 months* from the date of confirmed registration.

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Activity details 

• On-demand webinar recording 

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this webinar, participants should be able to:

• identify the links between a positive psychological orientation and stress and coping,

• differentiate between coping, resilience and fortitude and understand why fortitude presents as the gold standard, and

• be aware of the coping constructs that can be used both clinically and as self-help tools for client behavioural change in diverse circumstances.

Presenter(s)

Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg AM HONFAPS, MA, Dip Ed, Dip Clin Psych, PhD, Grad GAICD

About the presenter(s)

Erica Frydenberg is a clinical, organisational, and educational psychologist who has practiced extensively in the Australian educational setting before joining the staff of the University of Melbourne.
She is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow (Honorary) in psychology in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society.
She has authored over 150 academic journal articles and chapters in the field of coping, published psychological instruments to measure coping, developed programs to teach coping and published numerous books on coping across the lifespan, parenting and early childhood. Her interest in wellbeing, coping, resilience and fortitude is underpinned by the principles of positive Psychology.
Her most recent books (2022) are: Building Empathy in Children Through Community Connections : A Guide for Early Years Educators (with Liang & Deans) and Coping in Good Times and Bad: Developing Fortitude which has been written for a general audience.
She has engaged in a range of consultancies including early childhood, social emotional learning and positive psychology and teachings relating to the holocaust.
Erica has served on the Boards of the Australian Psychological Society, Veterans Children’s Education Scheme, Oz Child: Children Australia, and the Board of the Centre for Positive Psychology, University of Melbourne. She has served on several School Councils and currently co-ordinates the Psychology Circle at the Lyceum Club in Victoria and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society Positive Psychology Interest Group.