The Science 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.

Resilience has been topic that we have learned and are discussing in my English class. When you can overcome hardships faster and easier when you are more resilient person. We have been analyzing an article called “The Science of Bouncing Back” by Mandy Oaklander. Oaklander discusses methods of many people on their experience, becoming a more resilient person. People respond to emotion and hardships in their life differently, and people with more struggles overcome it more gradually, and Mandy Oaklander made me consider the possibilities resilience has, and can offer in everyday life.

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.

events, or they may be one-off actions or decisions to do, or not to do

“Resilience can be generally defined as the capacity to cope with life's setbacks and challenges” (Moen & Erickson, 1995). Although seemingly simple the concept of resilience is ever changing. Resilience levels differ from person to person. Sometimes traumatic events significantly affect people, While the other set of individuals who experienced the same traumatic event are seemingly ok. These inconsistencies are what led Dr. Williams to research this clinical issue repeatedly presented to her with sexual abuse victims. By investigating what causes some victims of sexual abuse to need more help than others, she can better personalize and adjust her services for each client. She can also implement systems similar to those already in place for those who are coping well with the

My story of resilience began on April 17th, 1981. My mother was 15 years old when I was born. When I was an infant, my father abandoned us. Still, I do not know his whereabouts. My mother didn’t finish high school, struggled with alcoholism and was often unemployed or underemployed when I was a child. You might imagine the difficulties I encountered throughout my childhood due to these circumstances. What you’re imagining is probably accurate. I’ll spare the details because I don’t allow those details to define my story. What defines my story is that I did not become a victim of the circumstances I was born into. I did not allow the struggles of growing up with an alcoholic parent in poverty and dysfunction to defeat me. As a result, these experiences ignited an inner spirit of resilience and provided me a vision of what I did not want my life to become. Consequently, I set my sights

The last ingredient of resilience has to do with having positive emotions in times of stress. To become happy you must have more positive emotions than negative ones. True happiness comes from finding meaning and satisfaction when you reflect on your life. It does not mean a life free from

A vehicle is traveling along a four-lane highway just after dusk on the outskirts of Johnson City, Tennessee. Tom, the lone occupant is headed home from dinner with his co-workers and is feeling great after spending time to un-wind with his friends. Traveling the opposite direction, Billy is a drunken man who has just left his favorite sports bar and decided to drive himself home since he is in such a good mood from his favorite football team winning. Billy begins to send a text and doesn’t realize that his car drifts left into the oncoming lanes. As he crests a hill, Billy’s vehicle slams into Tom’s vehicle entrapping both driver’s in the crumpled cars. Tom and Billy are both successfully extricated from their vehicles and taken to the hospital where they both begin their long road to recovery.

There are several important aspects to this method of CBT. According to Padesky and Mooney (2012), they emphasize that:

You are going to see an enhancement in your work experience, your spirituality, your resilience, and your relationship with yourself and others.

The author in this article talks about the concept of resiliency and how it can help the field of genetics to identify protective factors in people diagnosed with serious diseases. There are 13 individuals who have been identified somewhere in the world as having the gene for a serious disease and yet have managed to live healthy lives without symptoms of the disease. This is how the “Resilience project” was first created. Researchers are interested in finding out what do these resilient individuals possess that is serving as a protective factors and how can science build on it so that we can have a better grasp in designing treatments and protocols for genetic serious diseases.

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 is best defined as the elasticity of the oceans waves. After crashing all the way to the rocky shore they pull back, recovering from the shallow circumstances they were thrown into. Being resilient is being able to rise to the occasion in times of hardship. When facing life's disadvantages we have to look for what we can learn from it, apply that knowledge, and move on looking toward a better tomorrow.

After getting rejected from multiple software internship opportunities, I have begun to understand that rejection is a milestone of success, not an attribute of failure. It is not a step down the ladder but the opportunity to learn and take two steps up it. Although the lady I asked to race said no, this experience further validated Holiday’s thoughts on ego’s negative impact on success and the importance of resilience toward rejection for the learning process.

Question: Discuss the impact of chronic medical conditions on adolescents and identify ways of promoting resilience or positive development.