Belinda's Resilience Short Story

Resilience is a skill that you develop over time through your experiences. People with this quality are able to gather their strength and keep going even when it seems futile to do so. Human resilience can be defined as the ability to come from your lowest point, back to your highest. It is the ability to get back up even when everything and everyone is pushing you down. Resilience can be expressed in several different ways and different people will have different beliefs on what it means to be resilient. In The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls and her family face numerous trials that require resilience to carry on from. Examples of this quality can be found in both The Glass Castle and in a quote from Elizabeth Edwards.

Bi Write a reflective account detailing an example of how you have, or could have, used a person centred approach in a sensitive or complex situation.The account must contain a description of how person centred values were or could be put into practice in the situation. Suggested word count: 350 – 500 words

A face to face interview was scheduled and conducted with Mrs. Belinda Murray, LPCS on 9-4-15 from 6:30pm-7:15pm, at a location in Aberdeen, North Carolina. Authorization was given from Mrs. Murray to record the interview through my cell phone device as a reference during the final preparation for the assignment.

Outcome 4 Be able to lead practise in supporting children and young people’s well being and resilience.

2.2 Demonstrate ways to put person centred values into practice in a complex or sensitive situation.

During our lives we come across many difficult times in which we learn important skills. However, our actions choose what skills we've gained. For instance, a person who makes rational choices, keeps aware of what these choices do, and never letting the situation over take them have the characteristics of a resilient perosn. People with resilience have a way of dealing with problems in the most effective way possible, like Louie Zamperini, who was lost at sea for months after his plane malfunctioned and crashed. His fight for survival brought forth these traits and caused him to outlive his situation.

About 33% of American POWs held by Japanese captors died during WWII. Louie Zamperini was a soldier of U.S. forces and became POW in Japan after his plane crashed into the sea. But, he had resiliency and agency, he used these two traits to help him survive Japanese POW camps. Resiliency is the ability to bounce back from bad situations. Agency is the ability to take control of a situation. In the novel, Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses Louie’s life experiences to show his most important traits: agency and resiliency.

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.

Often a person would think only those with the most physical and mental strength are able to face a crisis calmly, well the truth about this schema isn't all that clear. Psychologist Kendra Cherry broke up the term resilience into seven different traits she believes allows people to cope with problems and setbacks. The true story "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand, told the story of three men who were adrift at sea after surviving a horrendous plane crash. The story also showed how Louie Zamperini, the protagonist of this story, had great resilience and was able to survive for 47 days at sea. Louie's mindset of being a survivor not a victim allowed him to feel like he could control the situation and focus on any way he could keep all three of

1) Explain the importance of a person centred and inclusive approach and give examples of how important this is implemented in your work ( L.O2.3)

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

Resilience is defined as a person’s ability to weather adversity and come out of it with a stronger ability to deal with the next challenge (Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, n.d.). Resilience can be noted as a trait within an individual as well as a process through which a person undergoes during adversity (Jacelon, 1997). Measuring resilience can be done by assessing certain qualities within an individual and asking questions to elicit better understanding of their current psychological state (Wagnild & Collins, 2009). Nurses must have a thorough comprehension of resilience and how to measure and promote this among individuals who are met with health challenges. By doing this nurses are better able to provide holistic client centred care and inform the nursing profession.

7. What do you believe will be your strengths and challenges in working with diverse

In the science of resilience, Bari Walsh defines the meaning of resilience by using Jack Shankov’s definition - “a positive, adaptive response in the face of significant adversity”. (gse.harvard). Basically resilience is the capacity to quickly recover from toughness of life.

I'm amazed by the clear majority of “successful” people who overcame adversity and hardship. How do we react to ours? Do we crumble like cookies under the thought of a challenge and avoid them.. or do we conquer challenges and own them? Well, I say, it's up to us. All this [stress] plays into a huge feedback loop that can determine health, happiness, and ultimately our "success". For better or for worse. Why did patients in our readings have such different personal narratives of illness from what seemed to be very similar and even in the same biomedical causes of illnesses? These questions highlight the view that there is a deeper transcending non-biomedical cause of illness, which then, effects outcomes of treatment and healing. I believe an attitude of resilience fostered through experience, plays a huge role in how people react to their illness which then affects how one responds to treatment/therapy. How is it that some people in life have suffered so much and at the end of the day, sometimes after years. not only remain intact mentally, but thrive in the world and carry on with their lives, despite their condition(s) and exposure to trauma. Against all the odds. Through personal experience and evidence presented in the readings. I will persuade you to understand why I feel humans may respond so differently; to treatment and the processes of healing. I don’t expect you to agree with everything I say, you are entitled to that. I only expect that you acknowledge that the