Examples Of Psychological Resilience

The article, Unbroken: what makes some people more resilient than others, uses the example of Louis Zamperini as shown in the movie, Unbroken, to examine the role of resilience in the ability to recover after a traumatic event. Written by David Cox for The Guardian, the article discusses current research on resilience, and explains how it can be used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Many people experience a severe trauma in their lives, but only a few go on to develop PTSD. For a long time, the focus has been on what makes people more susceptible to developing PTSD. A newer approach to studying stress disorders, as the article establishes, is the study of resilience. Using the example of Louis Zamperini, the article describes an interdisciplinary approach to studying resilience including biological, social, and lifestyle factors.

However, post-traumatic stress in adults due to childhood experiences can have a large negative effect on their future life events. Those that lack resilience are at greater risk of developing mental illness. Depression and anxiety is commonly seen in adults whom have battled with poor early life experiences. According to Dr. Joanne Joseph, the essence of a healthy personality evolves from having a positive and secure self- image, and a stable set of resilient attitudes and perspectives (Joseph, 2007). Adults juggle intense mental and emotional stress, which in the long term will impact on the way they perceive difficult situations and group conflict. This can have consequences that results in the complete obliteration of their personal and social resilience, who are therefore at a greater risk of committing suicide. On the contrary, individuals may learn from these stressful situations and develop coping mechanisms that benefit in times of

There are unfortunate events that may take place in someone’s life, which can lead to stress. Sometimes a crisis or a traumatic event can come without any warnings. A crisis can be a problem that is too great for someone to handle, but it is not always bad (Wright, 2011). Trauma is the response to any event that shatters a person’s safe world, so that it is no longer a place they can feel safe

When disaster strikes, two responses exist: lose hope, or find an inner strength to rise above. “Werner” is an essay where the author, Jo Ann Beard, presents the idea of rediscovering yourself, rebuilding a life after loss, and rising above adversity. Werner, Beard’s main character, finds that the only way to truly move on after a tragedy is to take a leap into what is unfamiliar. After a fire burns down everything Werner has, he is forced to grow and become a new man, leaving his old life behind. Throughout the essay, Beard illustrates a man who faces challenges to his sense of self, and who sequentially must change and become someone new to find who he is again. Beard’s use of the third person, candid diction, and conflict resolution compose an elaborate work that focuses on the concept of becoming a new and better person after a traumatic event.

“Resilience: The Biology of Stress and Science of Hope” (2016), is a documentary corelating adverse childhood events (ACE) and chronic medical condition like heart disease and diabetes (Resilience trailer, 2016). Childhood trauma and toxic stress changes a person physically and emotionally (Lee, 2016). On November 29, 2017, I had the pleasure of attending a showing of the film ‘Resilience’ and the panel discussion which followed. The panel consisted of five community leaders discussing the impact of ACEs and the work being done to address the problem. The panel included: Joan Caley MS, ARNP-CNS, CNL, NEA, BC of ACES Action Coalition, Jill McGillis of Clark County Juvenile Justice, Michelle Welton outreach manager for Catholic Charities Refugee Services Program Support, Jonathan Weedman CCTP, LPC the director of operations population health partnerships for Care Oregon, and Sandy Mathenson EdD director of social –emotional learning for Battle Ground Public Schools. The speakers received about fifteen minutes to discuss their respective work and agencies. In this brief review, I will summarize the discussion and deliberate the effectiveness of the presentation method.

The events or situations that can produce stress are called stressors. To measure the amount of stress a single event can cause two men named Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe came up wit this idea of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. This scale “includes 43 life events” each event comes with a point value for the amount of stress that each event should given. However more than “150 life change units within a year had an increased rate of physical or psychological illness”. Over time this scale has been modified to accommodated for gender, age, martial status, and individual characteristics. Even with the modifications made, the way each person copes with stress is quite different therefore this scale does not apply to the majority of people. Likewise this scale did help research to find that “negative life events have a more adverse effect on health than a positive event.”. Therefore traumatic events “ are events or situations that are negative; serve, and far beyond our normal expectation for everyday life or life events.” These negative events can cause extreme stress on a person which can lead to health issues. For instance PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder can cause anxiety, nervousness, sleep disturbances, and irritability. To help to resolve the health issues that come with stress many try to develop resilience. Though contrary to popular belief the

“The human capacity for Burden is like BamBoo- Far more flexiBle than you’d ever Believe at first glance.” ( Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper) In this essay it will show how Brian in the Book used resilience to get through all of the hardships in his story. In addition it will tell aBout a claim on what resilience is in life and in Brians WInter. Finally it will tell aBout a counterclaim in place of one claim.

The occurrence of a traumatic event does not produce the negative reactions for most people, but rather the amount of exposure to the event (MacGeorge et al., 2007). The higher the amount of exposure the more severe the distress and reactions. Those who had little exposure to the event can still experience negative outcomes and adverse effects on their health. Stress can be healthy to us as it allows us to focus on the matter at hand and get work done. However, stress can also be damaging to our physical and mental health. Prolonged stress can produce lasting emotions that surpass the original source. Depression and anxiety can even occur to those with a low exposure because of the stress associated with the events. Physical health can also be damaged from the symptoms of stress in a long-term environment. Those who had a direct exposure of the attacks more commonly experienced disorders such as PTSD and clinical depression. (MacGeorge et al., 2007). Those who had a low exposure had a higher sense of closure, the feeling that a bad experience has ended and a normal life can be lived again. This high closure resulted in higher psychological well-being, and those who had a lower closure were found to have psychological distress (Adler & Poulin, 2009). People who had a higher closure to the events of 9/11 were able to put aside the adverse impact and move on with their lives. They were able to put away the stress and worry, while those who had a low closure clung to the events and held longingly on to the

In this week’s reading, Anna Harrington uses a quote from Victor Frankel: “The last of human freedoms… is the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances. What a great way of restating, “Your response is your responsibility.” (Eggerichs, 2014). She communicates some ideas about resiliency she calls elements: emotional, spiritual, social, family, and physical. (Harrington, 2012).

Trauma is common but not all survivors experience posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD). In the National Comorbidity Survey, trauma exposure rates exceeded 50%, yet lifetime PTSD was estimated at 7.8% (Kessler, Sonnega, Bromet, Hughes, & Nelson,1995). These findings have been replicated and found to be consistent suggesting that most people exposed to trauma can retain a stable equilibrium without reactive psychopathology (Bonanno, 2004; Bonanno,Galea, Bucciarelli, & Vlahov, 2006). Some researcher convey this phenomena as resilience, which is an individual 's successful adaptation to trauma (Wang et al. 2010), suggesting that resilient people have the ability to adjust and cope successfully in

Anyone can experience a traumatic event, for example, a car accident or a physical assault during a robbery. In most situations people will develop resilience, which is the person’s ability to adapt when they are faced with trauma, adversity, or high amounts of stress (American Psychological Association, 2016). In other words they are able to cope with the traumatic event, a constructive manner. However there are those who are unable to reach this phase and thus develop a Trauma – and – Stressor Related Disorder. The most common heard of disorder in this category is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), yet there is another disorder that is very similar, Acute Stress Disorder (ASD).

Another research shows that by doing cognitive reappraisal or reinterpreting the meaning of an emotional stimulus, would increase the activity of prefrontal cortex. Person with greater activation of the prefrontal cortex is very important in resilience because it enables the person to recover faster from a negative emotion such as sadness, anger, and fear. Activation of PFC also helps to facilitate rational planning and behavior (Acton, 2012).

Max is a 26 year old male who works at a auto parts factory. He is the sole provider of the family and is now struggling financially. Due to this it has caused a lot of stress in Max’s life. The purpose of this paper is to Identify the risk and resilience factors in Max’s life, describe the factors that put Max at risk for stress and disease and what helps him cope, and why those factors relate to stress, disease, or coping.

Stress is part of our lives. We live with it, deal with it, and above all worry about it. Our way of life, the area in which we live, the economy, and our jobs can cause a great deal of stress. Not everyone deals with the same level of stress and there are several factors that can impact our lives and cause us to have higher or lower stress levels. We can have stress caused by Cataclysmic events which according to Feldman (2009) are events that can affect many people at the same time and are “disasters such as tornado and plane crashes, as well as terrorist attacks”. (p418). Other factors are personal stressors and can be caused by events such as a divorce, death or a loved one or the loss of a job. (Feldman, 2009). The

Stress is induced by life events .Lazarus and Flokman in (Cavanaugh and Blanchard –Field (2005) point out stress is defined by the person and that no two people experiences stress the same event in exactly the same way. Each individual has a specific tolerance for stress depending on general level of adjustment, the internal and external resources available to that person, flexibility of learned coping mechanisms and the degree and type of stress being experienced .The rise in stress that results from emotional hazardous