Research
CorStone develops, collects, and disseminates best practices for strengthening emotional resilience. Our research is evidence-based, which means that we collect and analyze data to determine how effective our methods are over time. Our assessment tools include:
- Pre- and post-intervention diagnostic interviews
- Standardized measures for anxiety, depression and other emotional states
- Observers’ reports
- Various means of controlling demographic variables in our study samples
- Accepted techniques of statistical analysis
With our dedication to demonstrating efficacy, CorStone is committed to meet the demands of academic institutions, researchers, foundations and others interested in furthering and supporting best practices in developing emotional resilience.
In this section of our website, we endeavor to showcase research studies and reports of interest -- our own as well as the work of others in the field -- demonstrating best practices and/or compelling findings on a variety of related topics such as family resiliency; peer support models; the role of attitude, compassion and forgiveness when dealing with major crisis and/or conflict; psychobiology; and similar. This list is by no means exhaustive. Check back often, this section is updated monthly.
Emotional Resiliency: General
Fostering Resilience among children in Difficult Life Circumstances
Yitzhak Berman. January 2007....Implications of Resilience Concepts for Scientific Understanding
Rutter. Annals New York Academy of Sciences. 2006....Emotional Resiliency: School-Based Programs
An Evaluation of the FRIENDS Programme
A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy intervention to Promote Emotional ResilienceStallard, Simpson, Anderson, Carter, Osborn, Bush. Archives of Disease in Childhood. May 2005....
Penn Resiliency Program
School-Based Prevention of Depressive Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Study of the Effectiveness and Specificity of the Penn Resiliency ProgramGillham, Reivich, chaplin, Shatte, Samuels, Elkcon, Litzinger, Lascher, Seligman, Freres, Gallop. Jo...
Emotional Resilience and Trauma
Loss, Trauma, and Human Resilience
Have We Underestimated the Human Capacity to Thrive After Extremely Aversive Events?Bonanno. American Psychologist. January 2004....
Resilience: Research Evidence and Conceptual Considerations for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Hoge, Austin, and Pollack. Depression and Anxiety 24: 139-152. 2007. 2006 Copyright Wiley-Liss, Inc....Emotional Resilience, Neuropsychology, and Neuroscience
Promoting Resilience in Children and Youth
Preventive Interventions and their Interface with NeuroscienceGreenberg. Annals New York Academy of Sciences. 139-150. 2006....
Resilience Among Children and Adolescents At Risk for Depression
Mediation and Moderation Across Social and Neurobiological ContextsSilk, Vanderbilt-Adriance, Shaw, Forbes, Whalen, Ryan, Dahl. Development and Psychopathology 19. 200...
Emotional Resiliency: Models for Developing Countries
Adapting Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy for a Developing Country: Experience in Rural Uganda
Verdeli, Clougherty, Bolton, Speelman, Ndogoni, Bass, Neugebbauer, Weissman. World Psychiatry 2:2. J...Interventions for Depression Symptoms Among Adolescent Survivors of War and Displacement in Northern Uganda
A Randomized Controlled TrialBolton, Bass, Betancourt, Speelman, Onyango, Clougherty, Neugebauer, Murray, and Verdeli. JAMA. Augu...