School Wellbeing Risk and Resilience Cards

The School Wellbeing Cards are for children age 7+ through to secondary school age, who are experiencing anxiety or unhappiness at school, and who may be at risk of Emotionally Based School Avoidance/Non-Attendance (EBSA/EBSNA).

Grounded in resilience research, each deck contains 40 picture cards, with the first part of the card sorting activity exploring barriers to wellbeing at school, as well as evidence-informed risk factors associated with school anxiety and non-attendance. The second part of the activity then explores the resilience factors that promote school attendance and wellbeing and utilises a strengths-based approach to bolstering the child’s resilience at school.