The Resilience Project Summary

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.

The National Institute of Health (NIH), in coordination with President Obama, has set out in 2015 to tackle these very challenges with their “Precision Medicine Plan”, where the NIH is seeking over one million volunteers to provide health related data for “genetic factors... also the role of environmental exposures and their impact on genetic predispositions”, among other goals. (Steenhuysen, 2015) This project in the growing field of precision medicine is now feasible with the recent developments in the field of both data quality and analysis coupled with leaps in computing power that can back it up. (Warshaw, 2015) The NIH plan, while

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.)

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.

Although the role of disasters such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti did act as a catalyst for transformation, it was somewhat limited. To some extent, the question of scale comes in place when transformation at one particular level or a sector of operations support resilience at another scale (Pelling & Manuel-Navarrete 2011). Put it differently, the problems associated with being scale-dependent is the issue of linking the discrete levels down from formal institutional hierarchies to informal systems like community activism and contemporary social networks (Prager 2010). In some cases, resilience can also result to the desire of only reinforcing status quo by responding to disruptions outside of the social ladder (Cretney 2014). Similarly,

One of the programs specifically targeted for adolescents in school is The Penn Resiliency program (PRP). It is a Cognitive Behavioral (CB) intervention for young adolescents that in is intended for delivery in schools. PRP found that the program significantly reduces depressive symptoms for at least 12 months post intervention (Gillham et al., 2012). The study for this program was successful in showing that the program can be delivered in a group setting lead by educators or regular people from the community. “PRP includes 2 major components. The first component is based on CB therapy for depression, students learn about connection between interpretations and feelings and behaviors” (Gillham et al., 2012). In the second component, students

Lack of psychological needs in childhood can cause increase risk levels of attaining social vulnerability (Richaud as cited in Lostaló & Di Nella, 2004).

The client stated she was most proud of her resilience. She stated that although she knows that the type of stroke she suffered should have killed her but it did not kill her so she will continue to be thankful and conscience of the life she had left to live. She stated she wants to live life to the fullest of her capabilities. She stated she would like to change the way she turns into herself when she feels any emotion she does not want to feel. She explains that after her stroke she fell into a deep depression and finds herself even now four years later still a little depressed. She stated getting help for her depression is her immediate goal but future goals are to start participating more in the church and community even if its just to

Every second a new human being is born and with every new human there is a different characteristic that defines that person, such as their Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA). When humans are born, they come into a world that is filled with numerous type of bacteria’s, viruses, and even fungi, but thankfully we have an immune system that is great at fighting invading agents that are trying to damage our health and body. However, some Homo sapiens are born with certain diseases that may be hereditary or are just part of a mutation.

The paper begins with the story of a five-year-old boy, a five-year-old boy who is barely clinging to life. He is so malnourished that he looks half his age. After a plethora of operations, examinations, and hospitalizations, doctors still had no idea what was wrong with him, that is, until geneticist Elizabeth Worthey began studying his DNA. Worthey began with the conventional and finished with the unconventional. In order to discover what was wrong with the boy, Worthey mapped out the genes that determine the protein his cells make. This essentially allowed her to pinpoint the mutation that was causing the boy’s medical problems. This is one of the first examples of “individualized medicine,” which uses the genome of the patient to

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.

All individuals have to face a problematic situation at some point in their lives. It can vary from the death of a loved one, serious illnesses or any traumatic experience. Most people become very emotionally drained, mentally exhausted and tend to experience different feelings. Generally, people manage to adapt over time to major life changing events and many stressful situations. This is enabled by resilience, which is an ongoing process that requires plenty of time and a lot of effort in taking several steps. Resilience is a key quality that every person requires in order to make their life smoother. Resilience can be applicable to anyone including, individuals, families, communities, healthcare professionals, organisations as everyone is bound to experience rough times at any stage in the journey of life.

Interestingly, the adaptation of humans to disease may date all the way back to the bottleneck that would eventually change our ancestors into behaviorally modern humans. A theory has been proposed that the activation of two genes that affect the human immune system created the modern human around 100,000 years ago. According to the study’s theory, humans have been adapting to disease for thousands of years. Clearly, disease and the adaptations of humans are correlated to their environment (LaFee, S., 2012).

The devastating damage and impact Hurricane Harvey had on the Houston happened several months ago, yet there are still countless problems the Houston area is still facing. One of these problems that is described in this article is the delay in obtaining the $10 billion that was approved by Congress to be used for long-term flood recovery. Currently, that money has not reached local governments in Texas, which is causing homeowners and other investors to be in a state of speculation and uncertainty. Leaders in communities throughout Texas are contemplating various methods that could remove individuals from homes in the flood risk areas such as using eminent domain or canceling flood insurance policies. These measures are being considered because leaders are concerned they are missing out on possible buyout opportunities.

Genes play an important role in the life of every living organism. Genetics are found in Farming to a woman’s fertility, virtually impacting every aspect of our life. Sometimes, these perfect codes that allow life to function in the desired way go haywire and cause abnormalities in the organism. There is a way to fix all of these ailments and the only problem that stands in the way is an unknowledgable public. The media have created a block of false truth that only allows for the news of ‘safe’ procedures to make it through to the general public. Yet, from sickle cell to malaria, diseases must be cured with new advanced technologies like Crispr and gene therapy; these methods are just as safe as the current methods that are ineffective.