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Youth Resilience Doughnut: Score your resilience worksheet
This powerful tool highlights to the student the factors that contribute to their internal resilience. This worksheet is for secondary and tertiary students to self assess and score their resilience.
Author/Source: Generously provided by Dr Lyn Worsley of The Resilience Centre
Last updated: 17/09/2025
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