Resilience Case Study

years old and feels responsible for it. Since the death of his aunt, he has irrational fear of abandonment and being alone. Since this incident, the client has been

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.

In Chariandy’s (2017) book Brother, the protagonist Michael tells a riveting story of the hardships his friends and family have faced growing up in Scarborough, Ontario. As the story progresses one learns that Michael shows a great deal of resiliency as he continuously faces adversity throughout his life. Michael overcomes many risks as he grows up, and faces many unresolved risks as the story comes to an end. Through comparisons made to Masten (2014) and Maynard’s (2017) books, along with class discussions and infographics, these risks will become increasingly clear. In addition to these risks, it will become clear what interventions were missing and what could have helped to increase the resiliency of Michael, and decreased the amount of

During this initial session, the client stated she is seeking counseling to "help find herself" due to some concerns she is dealing with in her personal life. When asked "to describe what does finding herself mean" the client was unable to answer. The client struggled to provide her view or a meaning to certain issues she identified as concerns. The counselor then assesses the client's family and her interactions with her family to find a correlation in her family interaction and what changes she wants to make in her personal life. Initial impression from the counselor is the client is aware of herself and her family and what she views as a positive and negative interaction which has or could impact the way she views things now. The client

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.)

Resilience can be defined as the capacity for one to recover quickly from difficulties, and Ms. Johnson clearly demonstrated said resilience by wanting to confront the man that took her only son away from her. Ms.Johnson says, “you took my son Laramiun’s life, and I needed to know why”(Isay 129). Ms.Johnson’s statement shows resilience in the sense that she was able to keep herself from becoming entrapped in hatred

Client appears to be very sad in regards of the gunshot incident, and the fact that her friends were involved in the incident. It appears to be that although this incident did not happen to the client directly, she is very distressed by it, and she feels a lot of pain and sadness to accept this event. Client appears to be hesitated to share her emotions with her best friends in regards of the incident. It seems like client has difficulties to accept that her friends use humor to cope with the gunshot incident. It appears that client is angry at her friends' parents based on her description although client further denied it. Client seems to want to control over things that she does not have control of such as when client mentioned that she does not want her friends to go back to work yet. Although client is feeling a lot of distress from the incident, it appears that client is aware of the importance of self-care. Client would likely benefit from increase social support, and self-care

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).

Undergoing traumatic experiences impacts characters’ ability to function and sustain within society. This is seen in

Although the year 2013 has not been pleasant to say the least for the client, Kylie’s ability to recover from setbacks is one of her strengths. In Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment, the authors define coping as a form of adaptation that implies a struggle to overcome problems (Zastrow, Charles, and Karen Kay. Kirst-Ashman). While indeed Kylie is coping with the loss of her parents and struggling with PTSD, her resiliency will be a valuable asset when she endures future

O: Mrs. Thornhill knows the relationship can be saved, the process could be longterm. The client’s husband is not willing to share in the sessions with her nor is her parents ready to communicate with her.

How does one survive a terrible trauma? These experiences are the ones that make you stronger. Literary devices are commonly used by authors to promote the theme. The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a high schooler who falls into depression after being raped at a summer party. “If” by Rudyard Kipling is a poem that a father wrote to his son about the importance of perseverance and self-confidence. “The Art of Resilience” by Hara Estroff Marano is an article that explains the characteristics of a resilient person. In the book Speak, the poem “If,” and the article “The Art of Resilience,” the theme that to be successful one must overcome hardships is developed through the use of symbolism, mood, and figurative language.

People say that living life is one of the many things we should be thankful for as human beings, however, isn’t there a time when life gets too hard? Throughout people’s lives, experienced people have gone through different types of maltreatment such as being bullied, harassment, physical and sexual abuse, physical neglect and threats. Films, movies portray the main character’s life as driven into madness because of their family or by their peers. Some people survive by confronting the issue while others choose to stay silent.

Our personal response to adversity and everyday life’s stresses is unique to each individual person and a product of our environment. What makes one person more or less resilient depends a lot on our social interactions that begin at childhood. The movie “Welcome to the Dollhouse” is a 1995 film by Todd Solondz, it is comedic yet painful at times, as it depicts how cruel kids can be to each other and how resilient an 11-year old girl can be when she is the target. The movie reflects the social problem of bullying that unfortunately is still happening in schools to this day. It gives us a look at the family system and stages of development.

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