Mental Health Issues Of Resilience In Individuals

People have learned to be resilient in order to overcome serious hardships. A person’s resilience can be seen through how they handle bad experiences; to be resilient in the face of adversity. People who never give up and always fight back even when it gets hard are resilient. Some believe that resilience is a trait that can be learned.

Considering resilience as a dynamic process, it becomes evident that it may vary with time, i.e. an individual may be highly resilient at some instances but vulnerable at other, depending on the interactions taking place between the person and their environment and between risk and protective factors in an their life (Winfield, 1991; Werner & Smith, 1992; Borman & Rachuba, 2001). According to Masten (1994), resilience is a pattern over time, characterized by good eventual adaptation despite risk, acute stressors, or chronic adversities.

With mental illness identified as a very probable cause of these shootings, it is critical that the evidently poor and ineffective clinical help for mental disorders be reevaluated. A theoretical explanation for the modern prevalence of mental illness could be the increasingly optional nature of treatment: therapy is a choice, and checking into a facility or institution is

Mental health remains a taboo topic which is often discounted as a serious health issue until events of great tragedy, such as the shootings at Columbine and Virginia Tech, force the topic into the public view and force public for discussion. The strong stigma associated with mental health issues impedes the identification of mental health issues early within the illness and further more makes preventative care nearly impossible. Feelings of anxiety or depression are frequently dismissed and viewed by the general public and some health professionals, not trained in mental health, as a sign of weakness and laziness. In view of the growing need for psychiatric health providers, the present lack of services, and this stigma one can see how

With the push for mental health services to seek out proactive methods in building resilience and preventing psychopathology, research studies on the interplay between resilience and psychopathology materialize. This particular study analyzes the role that resilience interplays between coping (approach and avoidance) and psychopathology (anxiety, depression, anger and aggression) (p. 1). To understand mediational role of resilience between coping and psychopathology, the link between coping and pathology, as well as coping and resilience, must be defined. When the coping process is a positive approach, then the issue is dealt with logically and directly, thus fostering resilience. However, when the coping process is a negative avoidance

In the article, ’How People Learn to Become Resilient’, Maria Konnikova points out that some people have ability to be resilience more than others. The author explains that how people become more resilient. Moreover, Konnikova uses many resilience research example’s to focus on personal resilience. Konnikova talks about diversity of resilience and compares to different people’s system. The author claims that people can stimulate and control negative responses in their brain. The author believes that even people might be overemphasizing the responses. In conclusion, if you become durable standing on the bad situation, you will be more resilience than before.

Another group believes both types of criteria must be considered when measuring resilience (Masten, 2001). The debate centers around whether internal criteria regarding adaptation, such as academic achievement, or external criteria regarding adaptation, such as levels of distress or psychological health, are more important, or whether both should be accounted for when determining levels of resilience (Masten, 2001). Initially, researchers thought resilience developed as a result of some remarkability found in children (Masten, 2001). Researchers eventually fond that resilience is actually common and can result from normal systems of adaptation (Masten, 2001). In normal functioning adaptive systems that remain protected, resilience can develop, even when children encounter harsh misfortunes (Masten, 2001). Masten (2001) discussed both variable-focused and people-focused approaches for

As a Christian and therapist, I am deeply aware of the harm that can result in some relationships, but also the deep healing that only relationship can provide. In this paper, I am concerned with the healing process. In addition, I have been observing that some individuals are able to tap into these healing opportunities while others continue to struggle relationally despite the availability of resources. I call these protective factors, and would like to explore what makes them attainable to the individuals we like to call resilient in the mental health field. A final question I would like to discuss is, what can we as mental health counselors do to support the clients in our care whose protective factors appear limited?

Joan Garity's (1997) article investigates the relationship between levels of resilience and specific coping strategies in Alzheimer's family caregivers. Garity describes a moderate positive correlation between resilience and problem-focused coping strategies. Particularly, a statistically strong positive correlation was found between resilience and the problem-focused sub-scale of planful problem solving. In emotion-focused coping strategies, a moderate negative correlation between resilience and escape avoidance was found. Yet a moderate positive correlation was found concerning resilience and distancing. Hence, the coping strategies used often by individuals with high resilience are planful problem solving and distancing. Nevertheless, these

Resilience has been studied from diverse perspectives, such as displaying adequate development despite a series of risk factors that pose a threat to such development, functioning well under adverse conditions, or recovering normal functioning after a disaster or adversity (Masten, 2007). The theoretical postures and ways of understanding resilience are also different because they consider it either in personality trait or dynamic process. For the former perspective, resilience is a trait that is fixed and stable over time, and the main research goal is to determine the individual differences that may explain why some individuals perform better than others in adverse contexts ( Campbell-sill et al.,2006). The second perspective considers resilience as a stage resulting from the combination of diverse protection and risk factors, that is, a dynamic process that “protects” the individual any moment of one’s lifetime and can change as function of one’s personal, family, and social resources, as well as of one’s context and

The first study used psychophysiological methods to explore the emotion regulatory processes associated with psychological resilience. Thus, the main prediction of this study was that resilient individuals recovered faster from negative events and appraised the event as a task and saw it as less threatening, compared with low resilient individuals. The second study examined the role of cognitive appraisals in psychological resilience. The two types of appraisals they mentioned were threat appraisals and challenge appraisals. Threat appraisals are those in which the perception of danger exceeds the perception of abilities or resources to cope with the stressor. Challenge appraisals, in contrast, are those in which the perception of danger does

People contend with many difficult and trying times every day. These may be the loss of a loved one, a serious illness, the loss of a job or source of income, a terrorist attack, to mention but a few tragic events. More often than not, these events tend to be life changing, and how people react to them matters. For the most part, most people react to such incidences with a sense of uncertainty, accompanied by a flood of strong emotions. In retrospect, people have the tendency to adapt c0onsidrably to such life-changing situations, albeit over time. This process involves a lot of resilience, which is an ongoing process that necessitates effort, time, and engagement, with the people going through a series of stages. Of interest to this discourse, therefore, are some of the coping strategies individuals employ, to cope with some of these challenging situations. To do this, this essay uses the example of Frederic Henry in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farwell to Arms. First, we will talk about how Henry has a series of misfortunes from his past, which he appears to cope with rather well. Second, we will talk about Catherine Barkley, Frederic’s love interest. She has also lost her fiancé when she meets

Despite these stressful life experiences, many individuals manage to endure and overcome the temporary upheaval of these traumatic events remarkably well, with no apparent disruption in their ability to function at work or in close relationships. This situation is referred to as “resilience”, which is one’s capacity to maintain a pattern of low distress and adequate functioning following stressful experiences (Bonanno, Moskowitz, Papa, & Folkman, 2005). Individuals found to exhibit psychological resilience, are thought to possess a number of specific personal attributes that contribute to their ability to approach difficult situations in a way that adds to their resilient nature and to which serves to continually expand their personal and psychological strength (Akgemci, Demirsel, & Kara, 2013). Tugade and Fredrickson (2004) proposed that what may set people with high levels of psychological resilience apart from those with low levels of psychological resilience is a capacity to learn from the setbacks of life and to utilize that knowledge as a means of coping more effectively in the

Human resilience is a pretty amazing thing that can help us get through many things. Jodi Picoult, Greg Kincaid and Robert Jordan all give good quotes about this and relate it to a visual representation. Human resilience is important because it’s what helps us to adapt to the challenges that life has thrown at us. It also helps us to overcome the obstacles along the way or to find a new way around them.

First of all, I would like to define what resilience is. Major scholars believe it is the process to recover from trauma, or the ability to respond to adversity. According to Sergeant and Laws-Chapman (2012), resilience refers to “the ability to adapt to adverse conditions while maintaining a sense of purpose, balance, and positive mental and