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Growth Through Adversity

Understand that facing serious challenges can lead to genuine growth in three domains: new perspectives on life, improved relationships, and a strengthened sense of personal capability (post-traumatic growth); distinguish genuine growth from toxic positivity ('everything happens for a reason') and from denial; understand that resilience does not mean being unaffected by adversity but recovering and growing through it; develop a personal philosophy for handling setbacks based on meaning-making; explore how to support others going through serious difficulty without minimising their experience

Suggested ages 13–14

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Has Growth Through Adversity ever come through something genuinely hard and found it changed them in a meaningful way? Can they explain what post-traumatic growth means and how it differs from just 'getting over it' or pretending something difficult was fine?

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