Professor Paula Barrett is well known for being the author of a number of resiliency programs used around the world – Fun Friends, Friends for Life, My Friends (a resilience program for teens), and Adult Resilience Program. These programs which are often run in schools and community groups are evidence-based resilience programs boasting years of published research to show their positive effects on people’s ability to cope.
About Professor Paula Barrett (taken from Wikipedia article and her information website) -
Dr. Paula Barrett is the Founding Director of Pathways Health and Research Center, which has since its inception in 2003 helped numerous families worldwide with its prevention and cure of anxiety and depression, and promotion of resilience programs. Pathways Health and Research Center was a 2008 Telstra Business Awards finalist.
Paula Barrett is also a patron of the ‘Pathways to Resilience Trust’. This trust implements the two programs that she has designed for the treatment of depression, panic and anxiety related disorders. The FRIENDS for Life programs is aimed primarily at adolescent and older individuals while the Fun Friends program is for children below 7 years of age. These programs are being actively used in Australian schools in areas which rank low on social indicators. The FRIENDS for Life Program itself is available in 12 languages and is being officially used by 18 countries. Besides even the WHO has recognized the FRIENDS for Life program after conducting evidence based review.
Dr. Barrett is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker.
About Professor Paula Barrett (taken from Wikipedia article and her information website) -
Dr. Paula Barrett is the Founding Director of Pathways Health and Research Center, which has since its inception in 2003 helped numerous families worldwide with its prevention and cure of anxiety and depression, and promotion of resilience programs. Pathways Health and Research Center was a 2008 Telstra Business Awards finalist.
Paula Barrett is also a patron of the ‘Pathways to Resilience Trust’. This trust implements the two programs that she has designed for the treatment of depression, panic and anxiety related disorders. The FRIENDS for Life programs is aimed primarily at adolescent and older individuals while the Fun Friends program is for children below 7 years of age. These programs are being actively used in Australian schools in areas which rank low on social indicators. The FRIENDS for Life Program itself is available in 12 languages and is being officially used by 18 countries. Besides even the WHO has recognized the FRIENDS for Life program after conducting evidence based review.
Dr. Barrett is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker.
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