Definition Of Resilience

Through it all, I obtained the ability to overcome any situation at hand, no matter how long it took. I achieved through my obstacles with my school's' motto, “Find a Way or Make One”. During the year of 2009, I joined a step team in high school called the Distinguished Upper-class Kings Empowered through Step (D.U.K.E.S). Growing up in Houston, Texas things are not always as sweet as some would make it seem, especially my particular neighborhood. Even though I had a stepfather, I wouldn’t call him a role model.

Able to recover quickly from misfortune; able to return to original form after being bent, compressed, or stretched out of shape. A human ability to recover quickly from disruptive change, or misfortune without being overwhelmed or acting in dysfunctional or harmful ways. As in "Our team showed great resilience," or "Our team had good resiliency." (n.d.)

I had high hopes of returning shortly, and thought that I would be able to pick up where I left off and continue on with my dreams. What I didn’t know is that life doesn’t always play up to your expectations and things don’t always turn out the way you want them to be. Everything that I had known and was accustomed to was simply not my reality anymore. There was no college football, there were no scholarships, there was a radically different university system, and there were so many different factors that would deem my plans impractical and useless. And although I refused to give up and strived to keep giving my best effort in face of adversities, the difference was that this time, I would have to face most of these adversities alone.

Over decades, the research of resilience has developed from understanding individual’s resilience qualities and protective factors, to the process of resilience and the interventions that promote resilience (Richardson, 2002; Wright et al., 2013). Recently, the focus of resilience shift to the neurobiological process because of the development of science and technology (Wright et al., 2013). While these literatures emerging, there are two noteworthy issues. First, the outcome of the studies were mainly emphasized on main-stream population (Ungar, 2006). Second, little attention was given to resilience across cultures (Ungar, 2006; Ungar et al., 2005). Hence, it is important to investigate how resilience is being defined and understand in different cultures; what are the challenges when conducting a cross cultural research; and what are the key elements when implementing intervention in different cultures.

Therefore, they tend to invest less effort in school. These students need teachers and a school system that believes in them. And most importantly actively listens to them. A school like the one shown in the documentary is highly needed in urban areas. This school promotes all most all the things that you need to foster a resilient student. Schools that establish high expectations for all kids and provide with support have high rates of academic success. Resiliency gives students the ability to deal with challenges and adapt to new or difficult circumstances in a positive, productive manner. For example, the school in the documentary teaches students how to mediate a conflict, this skill will help students to overcome adversities they will encounter in their life. Resiliency is fostered when students learn to forgive others and themselves. Also, it is important for students to feel that they are part of the school community. A great way that the school gives students voice in their own education is “negotiated curriculum.” Students work with faulty to produce sets of questions that are important to their lives and which they would like to learn about it in school. These questions then form the basis for their

Resilience reflects the ability of someone to maintain a stable equilibrium(1), that is to retain a sense of identity or self(2), when dealing with adversity or misfortune. Highly resilient individuals are capable of coping with unexpected challenges, and may have a number of mechanisms or strategies to help them do so. Resilience is an aspect of health that is becoming increasingly recognised in medicine(3), as having resilience enables self-care and self-healing, which is beneficial in multiple ways. By being actively involved in his or her own wellbeing, a patient is likely to have better outcomes(3). In addition, healthcare resources are conserved, allowing them to be used to help a patient with less resilience. Although the importance of resilience in carers of the ill cannot be understated, in this essay I will primarily focus on resilience in patients approaching end of life, as there is a great deal for them to go through, all the way from diagnosis to death. The concept of resilience itself is something we are all familiar with in one way or another. I experienced seeing resilience being tested firsthand from watching my parents deal with my father’s cancer diagnosis, treatment and eventual passing all in the span of just over a year. On one of my GP home visits I was quite affected by talking to Mr A, an elderly man with COPD who was living with his wife, who had dementia. I will look at the

There were at least one-hundred students standing in front of me. We were waiting for the same thing, to be able to walk across that stage and call ourselves high school graduates. For four years, I had walked down the same dimly lit hallway with the thought of this moment in my head and now the day had finally arrived. It was June 4th and here I was standing in the gymnasium corridors of Los Angeles Community College ready to become my own person, not just some frumpy high schooler.

Life cannot continue without the possibility of going through change. There was a moment in my life where it all took a turn and the words of Maya Angelou spoke to me in a way that impacted the way I live each and every day, teaching me to keep moving forward. As I looked at the world with my mind filled with turmoil, high school became a greater challenge than expected, and the world had only grown darker. However, through the stress of meeting the expectations of my teachers, one showed me that even through the toughest times, laughter is all it takes to turn it all around. Time had passed, and I learned a lot by the time I finished the course, which led to my neverending desire to look at the world more closely. Rather than staying in my

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

Harrington's "Where there's a will, there's a way" illustrates the importance of developing a sense of resilience in order to be successful and be a productive member of society. (Harrington, 2012 pg 1). This attitude of resilience has been the only thing that has kept me going up to this point. Daily that spirit allows me to thrive as a student, single mother, employee and business owner.

There are several important aspects to this method of CBT. According to Padesky and Mooney (2012), they emphasize that:

Empathizing with those who were victims of bullying, inequality, and identity crisis, I knew precisely how it felt to question your purpose in life and wonder why you were not fortunate enough to life an “easy” life. Though, overcoming these obstacles built a steady foundation for my future. The countless hours of crying myself to sleep, fighting depression, and accepting my insecurities gave me the strength and the knowledge to help those who are not always aware of how to help themselves. If my experiences meant I could save and improve the lives of others, I would faithfully endure the unbearable pain each day, which makes me deserving of the People Helping People

During life, we all experience various obstacles. Everyone copes with these obstacles in different ways. The way that someone looks at, and handles stressful situations, is one of the ways of defining resilience (Harrington, 2012). One of these obstacles that many students have to overcome is the ability to juggle their jobs, families, and school. This can be a very daunting task.

Having traveled down a declining slope in my sophomore year, I was suddenly motivated to prop myself back up. I was for the first time emancipated of my pride and began to actively search for means to amend my “defeat”. When I finally received final semester grades, I was proud of not simply the hard work I’ve put into achieving these grades, but more importantly, how I picked myself up and rose above the ebbs and flows of my academic career.

The American Psychological Association (2014) defines resilience as “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress.” (American Psychological Association, 2014, pg.1) Resilience Theory uses the definition of resilience in the context of the lives of clients by explaining although people may face adversity in their lives it is still possible to overcome that adversity to achieve success and personal gains. Resilience Theory describes how clients “use protective factors to assist in a self- righting process over the life course to fare well in the face of adversity.” (Hutchison, 2015, pg.9)