6 Keys To Resilience

Resilience is the ability for the individual to cope with the disorder and recover from exposure to traumatic events. Many factors such as strong connection and support from one’s own social domain (family and friends), individual’s

Resilience is about how an individual deals, resists, recovers and learns from adversity’s in life. If a child is resilient they are less likely to be damaged as a result of negative experiences and are more likely to learn from and move on. In order for a child to be resilient they need to believe in themselves and have others they can rely on in their lives.

Resilience is about being independent, standing on your own two feet or taking back the power.

Resilience is the power or the ability to return to the original form. “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range” (94). Father Gregory Boyle says this because he knows that resilience is needed in order to change. Resilience is important because we can become better people by doing things, we thought we couldn’t do. In the book, Tattoos on the Heart, The Power of Boundless Compassion, Boyle claims resilience is essential in our lives because it is the key to do better.

Resilience is the ability to adapt well to adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats and sources of stress. In terms of children, it is how well a child copes with events that happen in their lives such as starting or changing schools, illness or death of a close relative. These events cannot be prevented but can be overcome. Being resilient does not mean that children won't experience difficulty or distress; however child practitioners can help children to manage stress and feelings of anxiety and uncertainty and overcome difficulties.

Resilience is a term that is often applied to those who have faced hardship and viewed the experience in a positive light as an opportunity to grow and change for the better (Wagnild & Collins, 2009). The definition however seems to vary from place to place. Ungar et al. (2008) stated “definitions of resilience are ambiguous when viewed across cultures" (p.174) which is why the understanding of resilience may be difficult to capture (as cited in Windle, Bennett & Noyes, 2011). Although the literature agrees on several common themes about resilience there are many varying opinions on how to define the concept or the attributing factors. Earvolino-Ramirez (2007) and

Resilience is something that some people would give anything to have, the price however is sometimes steep. The price of resilience can be personality, a relationship with family, or a person's modesty. By hardening themselves against the outside world some people lose a part of their personality and become much different than they were before, such as Allen Wheelis from “Grass”. Other times people sacrifice a relationship with someone they care about to become resilient, shutting them out so that they can not hurt them anymore, Elizabeth from “Jericho”, a short story by Margaret Price, is an example of this. Lastly some people who are resilient get what is called survivor’s pride, and in turn become arrogant, an example

Also, this study was to explore whether or not resiliency parallel with an individual knowledge of symptoms and signs of PTSD and if having advantage to useful resources resulted in a greater resilience score (Zwanziger, et al., 2017). The type of method which was used to measure resilience was a cross-sectional exploratory design. The Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) was used to determine if the knowledge of PTSD and the advantage to useful resources are connected to an individual elevation of resilience. This measurement tool was also used to compose fundamental knowledge of PTSD symptoms and sign of military spouses. The results reveal as the awareness of PTSD symptoms and advantage to useful resources increased, the ability to be resilient is enlarged by over 1.5 times (Zwanziger, et al.,

events, or they may be one-off actions or decisions to do, or not to do

The concept of resilience to nursing practice can be proven. The concept influences how patients respond to treatment and the success of their recovery. Resilience as a tool for recovery can influence our plan of care and influence how we approach treatement of our patients. Adverse effects such as maladaptive behavior patterns and unmanageable symptoms of PTSD cause great distress in our patients. Hardiness, resilience and invulnerability have been used interchangeably to define “group of phenomena that involve adaptation in the face of adverdity.” (Roisman 2005, p. 264). The phenomena involve “a psychological response to a stressful event and how a person deals the the stress of the traumatic event.” (2005, p. 264). This concept analysis

To overcome an obstacle, one must have some essence of resilience within. “Resilience has been defined as an attitude that enables the individual to examine, enhance and utilize the strengths, characteristics and other resources available to him or her” (Harrington, 2012). As a gunner in the military for a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, you are responsible for the turret and weapon system. Having never been a Bradley Commander, when asked to step up and take command I felt overwhelmed with the task at hand. Without being resilient, I would have failed as a Brandley Commander.

A vehicle is traveling along a four-lane highway just after dusk on the outskirts of Johnson City, Tennessee. Tom, the lone occupant is headed home from dinner with his co-workers and is feeling great after spending time to un-wind with his friends. Traveling the opposite direction, Billy is a drunken man who has just left his favorite sports bar and decided to drive himself home since he is in such a good mood from his favorite football team winning. Billy begins to send a text and doesn’t realize that his car drifts left into the oncoming lanes. As he crests a hill, Billy’s vehicle slams into Tom’s vehicle entrapping both driver’s in the crumpled cars. Tom and Billy are both successfully extricated from their vehicles and taken to the hospital where they both begin their long road to recovery.

After getting rejected from multiple software internship opportunities, I have begun to understand that rejection is a milestone of success, not an attribute of failure. It is not a step down the ladder but the opportunity to learn and take two steps up it. Although the lady I asked to race said no, this experience further validated Holiday’s thoughts on ego’s negative impact on success and the importance of resilience toward rejection for the learning process.

I believe that resilience, educational achievement, being engage with religion, positive parenting and peer relationships are some of the key drivers to the Latino/ Hispanic protective factors against negative outcomes. I believe these are essential because resilience consists of individuals who appear to make it despite growing under adverse circumstances and implied that those individuals were somehow invulnerable. Families that provide structure, limits, rules, monitoring and predictability, combats negative outcomes in many forms. Such as (parent child conflicts, poor parenting, school failure, low self esteem, early substance abuse). Factors that promote positive parenting include human capital that consists of employment, income and

Resilience in an individual refers to successful adaptation, despite the risk and adversity. The manner in which Matson 2004 defines resilience is very clear to me, as I can relate and reflect this to one particular girl that resided in the care centre I worked. Throughout the young girl's childhood, she developed an insecure and ambivalent attachment to both her parents, as a result of their hectic lifestyle of substance misuse. At a young age her father died from the HIV viruses, which lead her mother in becoming depressed and profoundly dependant on drugs. Due to the mother's dependency, she was unable to respond accordingly to the girls needs, given very mixed and inconsistent responses. At the age of 10, due to extreme neglect, the young girl was removed from her mothers care and entered the care setting. Over the years the young girl had experienced several placement breakdowns, and at 13 was admitted to a residential centre. During this time she felt both a