Theory Of Resilience

People have learned to be resilient in order to overcome serious hardships. A person’s resilience can be seen through how they handle bad experiences; to be resilient in the face of adversity. People who never give up and always fight back even when it gets hard are resilient. Some believe that resilience is a trait that can be learned.

In comparison, this viewpoint alternated my opinion as Dante Cicchetti displays “research on the determinants of resilience in maltreated children is presented as an illustration of empirical work that is moving from single-level to multilevel investigations of competent functioning in the face of adversity and trauma”.

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

I am part of a large family, I lived with a mother, father, three older sisters, and a younger brother. We lived in the large city of Los Angeles, California. There was no apparent infidelity that I was ever aware of in my family, but yet there seemed to be a small bit of the same crass attitude that my mother had for my father. He was stricken with a disability and unable to provide in the same manner she was accustomed. All of my siblings that could helped out in any way they could. The point is that we were a family that pulled together when needed. When I left for the military odyssey, I had no idea I would be placed in harm’s way. It was peace time. I made a surprise appearance one Christmas eve, my family was under the impression that I was still aboard ship and that I would be home in January for a visit. I secretly showed up on the front porch in full uniform, my sea bag slung over my shoulder. Holding back my own tears of excitement. I opened the front door and I stood there. For a brief moment frozen in time was my whole family, my beloved

An image of a young woman lying prone and sobbing inconsolably before the grave marker of her beloved at a veteran’s cemetery set me off big time. And, we’d better understand that this is only the tip of an emotional iceberg of deeply rooted grief that loved ones of fallen troops must somehow get through. It doesn’t go away. I still feel it after several decades. As I finish typing this, my eyes are trying to see through a wall of flowing water, a stark reminder that learning to live without our loved ones is not the same as forgetting them. As long as we live, we don’t forget… EVER!

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

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).

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

For the purpose of this assignment I interviewed someone from a military family, as I wanted to understand what loss and grief entails or looks like from a military perspective. When I asked my friend if I could interview her for an ethnograph in relation to loss and grief, she said that the loss of her father and brother were two of the most devastating losses she has experienced; mostly due to the suppression of emotion that widely characterizes military culture. There is a spirit of stoicism that is indoctrinated and woven into every fiber of military life, including loss and grief. Throughout this paper I will refer to my friend by the pseudonym Allie.

What is grief? How does one cope with grief? Grief is a state of being in deep sorrow sometimes caused by someone’s death. Everyone has a different way of dealing with grief. In Tim O’Brien’s essay, How To Tell A War Story, he gives a first class view of the time he spent serving in the Vietnam war. O’Brien describes the different ways in which him and his fellow soldiers dealt with the death of other soldiers in the platoon. By recounting stories, O’Brien processes his life in Vietnam and the memories of the war him and his comrades experienced. He makes it clear that most of the stories he tells can be truthful or a version of the truth. O’Brien meshes memory and his imagination to tell stories he believes the reader would find meaningful. His approach to story telling can be related to the phenomenon of false memory. In the following paragraphs we delve into how O’Brien uses his story telling technique to recount how his fellow soldiers dealt with trauma and grief. We also analyze how O’Brien‘s story telling relates to Jack O’Brien’s podcast, ‘‘Your Memory is a Filthy Liar .’’ in which he addresses false memory.

The movie that I thought represented risk and resilience the best was The Pursuit of Happyness. This movie is it is solely based on a lower class African American male named Christopher and his family. Throughout the movie Christopher and his encounter multiple occasions where they experience distress, a stress in daily life that has negative connotations (Boss, P., Bryant, C. M., & Mancini, J. A. 2017). This distress causes a huge amount of risk that challenges him to show resilience in order to keep up with his daily life and survive. Throughout this paper I will discuss the risk, external context, internal context and resilience that Christopher experiences and how this has made him who he is today.

When I heard a term called resilience, I have no idea about it and think that it is not related to me. After I had a lecture with a topic resilience. I realize it is necessary and I need to face many adversity in my life. Also, I remember something happened in my past are shown my resilience level. I would like to share the story in my life to show the factors which are indicated in the last part can show resilience level.

It is also a key factor affecting resilience. A positive, supportive and cohesive family relationship can promote our resiliency. Relatives are the important props to support us when we are experiencing adversity.

There are several key processes discussed in the Family Resilience chapter, in the text, such as the family belief system, organizational patterns, and communication. These processes help the family deal with stress, adjust to changes, and learn ways to cope with difficult situations. Within these processes, there is a framework, which focuses on family resilience. This family resilience framework emphasizes the families’ ability to adapt/adjust to significant influences and/or situations (Walsh, 2016).