The Process Of Resilience

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.

Dick has passed through a lot of difficulties and faced a lot of obstacles in his life, but finally he turned his life and took it to a different place. He found a new job and started to earn more money, so his life changed completely with hope, determination and work. Finally, He started to achieve his life goal “the American Dream”.

Many of the actions which support resilience are what most practitioners do naturally: showing care and concern, offering routine and consistent discipline, and building children’s trust by keeping promises.

It was a routine Wednesday morning while I was walking to my bus stop when I heard someone shout in my general direction. I slowly glanced around, looking for the source through the dimly lit street in the dark, only to spot a hooded figure to my left leaning on a car. I quickly averted my eyes, my hand tightening around my messenger bag and picked up my pace. Not long after I heard heavy footsteps falling behind me, another shadow joining mine on the cracked sidewalks and another shout,

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.

I believe I have gained resilience. I have recently decided to leave my full-time warehouse job for a part-time job so I could really focus on my last year and a half of college. I job paid fairly well but I was very unhappy. The job exhausted me with the mandatory overtime and long hours. I was often psychically and mentally drained. I felt like I had fallen into a circle that started and ended with every shift. I received so much negative feedback about my decision from coworkers, friends and even family. I think despite all of the negativity I was getting from the people in my circle, I knew this was the best decision for me. I finally decided to do what was best for me without letting other people's opinions affect my decision. I don't

The resiliency framework can be used in research to understand how a healthy family functions in situations of risk and resilience. By using the resiliency framework we can also see which strengths a family processes under stress and examine a family’s ability to recover and grow out of adversity (Walsh, 2003). The framework was used in a study of the comparative analysis of parent-adolescent conflict, family cohesion, and self-esteem among Hispanic adolescents in immigrant families (Li & Warner, 2015). From using the research and data found in this study a better understanding of the frameworks successful use and limitations can be made.

Having these preconditions or risk factors is directly linked with resilience as the presence of one or more of these preconditions and risk factors are necessary to start the resilience process.

“Resilience is the development of psychological strength to assist the individual to overcome and grow from challenges” (Harrington, 2012). Without resilience, it is almost like one would be running around in circles all of the time. Everyone needs organization, goals, a positive social circle, and God to help deal with life’s issues. Without these key elements, life would be extremely hard to manage and one would easily shut down.

Working in a production facility for the last 10 years, I understand how important resilience is for me and my co-workers. Customer orders change, overtime requirements fluctuate, machines break down and need repaired, and numerous other events occur everyday. It does not matter what job you have at any company, everyone must be resilient and do their part to obtain the proper outcome for the company in their own areas, and assist in others if possible. There were a few elements introduced in Harrington’s article that I feel have helped me be more resilient, which are emotional, family, and spiritual elements (2012). My family has always been there for me if I was going through tough times, and I feel that the support they give me helps me

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

The Theory of Resilience, developed by Antonovsky (1978), provides us with seminal work on salutogenesis (origins of health and wellness) and sense of coherence as a general approach to life. There are various other individually-oriented theories that have been associated with salutogenesis, including thriving, hardiness, locus of control and learned resourcefulness (Buch, 2006). Certain life circumstances have no other solution but resilience, however, we need to develop actual tangible resources to equip individuals with coping mechanisms and tools to achieve a better life experience. This background theory helps to explain the relationship between the variables between alleviating the stress related to the impact of parental death or injury

Gito et al. (2013) further states that these problems have bitterly disappointed and demoralized even the most competent nurses who have noticed their working environment as hostile and unrewarding. It is not surprising that many of them endure emotional burnout, suffer from depression and eventually end up abandoning their profession. Amongst these aggravating situations there are two types of nurses: those who experience burnout, depression and intention to leave their jobs and those who remain, survive and even thrive. This raises the question of why some nurses are able to cope with workplace adversity and find job satisfaction, but others are not. Personal resilience is considered to be the resource of an individual to positively adjust

Teachers hope to build positive interactions with their students, in order for them to help aid their students through difficult experiences we go through in life. There are three stances children take for developing resilience: I Have, I Am, and I Can. These are three different strategies that teachers have access to, to increase resiliency in their students.

Traditional approaches to public education directed at increasing awareness of risk perception have proved inefficient. In this study a model have been introduced for developing the adaptation of preparatory behaviors. This model of resilience to disasters effects has been tested in different communities and for different hazards.