title: Enhancing Children's Resilience in Schools to Confront Trauma: The Impact on Teachers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Children's exposure to stressful events requires effective interventions to strengthen adaptive development. Expanding the teachers' role to deliver resilience-focused interventions has been shown to enhance children's coping and to have a positive impact on the teachers themselves.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study compared the self-efficacy and perceived performance of 48 teachers following the implementation of such an intervention with 52 control teachers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Trained teachers reported higher self-efficacy and perceived performance. Associations between years of experience, perceived performance and self-efficacy are discussed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study provides further evidence on the positive impact of teacher-delivered interventions on teachers' performance and self-efficacy. Future studies should replicate this design with a larger sample to examine stages of professional experience, grades, before-after measures, association with students' coping and include male teachers.
authors.affiliation: Donald J. Cohen & Irving B. Harris Resilience Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Herzliya Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.
authors.forename: Leo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wolmer
authors.affiliation: Donald J. Cohen & Irving B. Harris Resilience Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Herzliya Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel Tel Aviv-Brull Community Mental Health Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hamiel
authors.affiliation: Donald J. Cohen & Irving B. Harris Resilience Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Herzliya Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.
authors.forename: Nitzan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Margalit
authors.affiliation: Donald J. Cohen & Irving B. Harris Resilience Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Tali
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Versano-Eisman
authors.affiliation: Donald J. Cohen & Irving B. Harris Resilience Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Yael
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Findler
authors.affiliation: Donald J. Cohen & Irving B. Harris Resilience Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv-Brull Community Mental Health Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
authors.forename: Nathaniel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Laor
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Slone
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000067073:Psychological Trauma / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D000070777:School Teachers / Q000523:psychology*; D012574:Schools; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*