The Importance Of Resilience For Healthcare Consumers And Health Professionals

One must wonder how a person with Steve’s shocking childhood could grow into a man who is successful, not only in his career but in his personal life as well. Resilience theory is a possible explanation as to why Steve survived, despite the odds that were stacked against him. Resilience theory is a strength based approach which provides a framework that focuses on positive outcomes and not just the negative ones. The idea is that it promotes what works best while de-emphasizing psychopathology. Resilience theory defines resilience and possesses several key terms, which include protective/risk factors. Research on resilience has been valuable in directing attention toward youth who succeed in spite of high levels of stress and economic instability, as it identifies factors that can serve as protective functions which foster competence.

According to the author McCubbin in Karen Seccombe’s article “‘Beating the Odds’ Versus ‘Changing the Odds’: Poverty, Resilience, and Family Policy” he says that “It can be defined as the capacity to rebound from adversity, misfortune, trauma, or other transitional crises strengthened and more resourceful” (385). McCubbins point is that resiliency is to bounce back from any “crises” or “misfortune” in a person’s life. Being resilient is to keep moving forward from any bad events. For example some factor work with a person’s resiliency such as a good parental bond, good community, and a role model.

Resilience is about being independent, standing on your own two feet or taking back the power.

Resilience is the ability to adapt well to adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats and sources of stress. In terms of children, it is how well a child copes with events that happen in their lives such as starting or changing schools, illness or death of a close relative. These events cannot be prevented but can be overcome. Being resilient does not mean that children won't experience difficulty or distress; however child practitioners can help children to manage stress and feelings of anxiety and uncertainty and overcome difficulties.

Recovery of a patient is much more than the management of medial symptoms. It involves a person regaining control, individualism and independency, “socially re-connecting” and rebuilding their life (Welch, 2010). Protective factors such as self-care, quality of life, pain and illness perception, and physical outcomes can be associated with the recovery of a patient. Welch suggest, “Excessive individualism or self-reliance is an obstacle to resilience when it undermines relationships or prevents people seeking and receiving help when they need it” (Welch,

This paper will examine the concepts of risk, protective factors, and resiliency. The paper will start with defining and elaborating on the concepts of risk and protective factors and examine how the latter promotes or hinders an individual’s capacity for resiliency. The paper will expound on the concepts of risk, protective factors and resiliency, by integrating the terms into the case study of Will Quinones. Lastly, the paper will conclude with strategies that can be used to promote resiliency in children that are deemed at- risk.

Resiliency describes a patient’s ability to return to base-line level of functioning after an illness or injury through use of compensatory and coping mechanisms (Lindell, Reimer, Swickard, Swickard, and Winkelman, 2014). This patient suffered the psychological trauma of losing her unborn baby as well as the physical threat to her own life all at the same time. She demonstrated admirable resiliency as she faced such unfathomable events. After two days of care and observation in the ICU, she was able to be discharged to home. It would certainly take time to experience the different stages of grief; however, she possessed an admirable faith that she, her husband, and their

If you want to see examples of resilience, all you have to do is look at recent events. Hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma, these three massive storms decimated, Houston the 4th largest city in the U.S, caused widespread damage to the state of Florida, and let’s not forget the massive destruction throughout the Caribbean Islands. The people of these areas could have just left and said enough is enough, and yes some did leave. However, a vast majority of the population of these areas has stayed a vowed to rebuild. This is what I call resilience, to stay where everything you owned is gone, there’s no power, food shortage, gas shortage, little to no water to drink. You have to agree that this is definitely resilience shown by these people, to overcome difficulties, to bounce back and recover, to never give up or give in. When giving up would be the easy way out, these people have shown true resilience staying and fighting for what you believe in. Another example of resilience, I just experienced personally within my own classroom as an automotive instructor was, when one of my student’s mother recently passed away from stage four breast cancer, the student could have just shut down and not been able to continue in class, but this student has shown great strength and character, by continuing to be in class everyday by showing real strength and courage and resilience he has been working through

It is also very evident through literature that resilience is a process and not an outcome. A community must take steps in order to build and ensure their resilience in the event of a disaster. Throughout all of the research it is also evident that the eight levers found in the review by Chandra et al. all the tools that set the framework for a community’s

1. Is the institution where you are employed building a high reliability culture for patients and health care workers? What strategies or methods are utilized in your institution to improve the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of patient care?

Besides my PhD project, I became interested in pursuing research about well-being and the concept of resilience. Thus, I started to plan and implement qualitative and quantitative research activities within this framework. Firstly, in-depth interviews were conducted to examine how different aspects of the doctor-patient relationship foster patient resilience in chronic pain and hypertension. Secondly, a cross-sectional analysis of the Swiss Household Panel Data (wave 2013) was carried out to investigate how social connectedness foster resilience in the chronically ill. Moreover, very much in line with your current project, I have been planning to conduct a longitudinal analysis of the SHP panel data, focusing on the process aspect of resilience;

TITLE OF ASSIGNMENT: Discuss how social care workers might utilise resiliency theories and frameworks to meet the needs and enhance the life skills of a group of clients in their care. Your discussion should draw on relevant theoretical frameworks and be applied to a particular social care setting of your choice.

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

This essay discusses coping, a complex process exercised by people to suppress, change, or eliminate stress or threat. This essay also discusses copers, that is, people who exhibit certain personality characteristics, known as distress resistant personality patterns, which can significantly influence whether they stay healthy or become ill. Also covered are coping strategies, -strategies people draw upon to solve life’s stressors, some

the needs of future generations. Resilience is the ability of people, many in communities that are