The Holocaust massacred mothers, fathers, and children, leaving behind a bloody trail of “agonizing emotional wounds.” Domestic abuse by a loved one shredded the souls of women bit by bit until the only comfort was a “‘nice huge fat sack of meth.’” Trauma takes form in many different ways, but resilience will always appear the same. Resilience is “transcend[ing]” misery and “find[ing] meaning in everyday life” no matter how gruesome the past may be. Resilience is “mov[ing] forward” and taking charge of the “reconstruction of life.” So although trauma may rob an individual’s identity, a resilient one can replace…
This book discusses, among other aspects of resilience, the approaches to self-care, how to apply positive psychology, self-awareness, compassion, and mindfulness (Wicks, 2009). These elements of resilience can develop the ability of a person to meet, learn from, and solve the challenges of life. People have a different range of resilience. (Wicks, 2009) The range of resilience demonstrated by various people depends on their current knowledge, their early life experiences, genetic factors, as well as their motivation to overcome the challenges that come their way to living a stress-free life (Wicks, 2009).…
There is, unsurprisingly, considerable overlap in the variables that contribute to wellbeing and resilience. Resilience is defined as ‘having the ability to bounce back’. It involves being able to thrive against the odds, to cope and recover from trauma (Action for Children,…
The concept of resilience is a characteristic brought upon individuals where they are followed by adversity. The concept is…
Resiliency is an important aspect of recovery in populations that experience adversity. Many experts and professionals have similar working definitions of resilience (Astier, Almedom, & Douglas; 2007; Cowden, Kobayashi, and Mellman, 2014; Eschleman, Bowling, & Alacron, 2010; Funk, 1992; Schaubroeck, Riollo, Peng, & Spain, 2001), which highlight the complexity of the word. The ability to return to a state of well-being and face adversity as a challenge instead of an overwhelming mountain unable to be scaled because of prior trauma is a challenging…
I believe that it is important that the resilience in children and young people is supported by friends, families and professionals so that they can cope with and thrive when faced with difficult situations. Resilience is a life skill that can help children and young people deal with difficult situations (even in adulthood), give them control over their lives and encourage self-esteem and confidence.…
By general definition, the term “resilience” suggests an individual’s capacity to positively transition through times of adversity. Contemporary research in the social sciences has coined the concept of a psychological construct, which has gained currency in its application to theories covering trauma and loss and subsequent clinical implications for the treatment of psychological disorders. Within neuropsychology, there are a number of arguments about the adequate nature and use of the term as applied to an individual’s levels of coping and adaptation in the transition phase from pre-trauma levels of functioning to improved levels of functioning post-trauma. In research involving traumatic stress, it is not uncommon for terms to overlap and…
Adversity can present itself according to a vast spectrum of severity and can have drastically different effects on individuals. When faced with adversity, people either learn to adapt to what has happened and make do with the circumstances, whereas other individuals will…
Being resilient can be very challenging in many ways. You might have to learn something more difficult because you're in a difficult class, and you still want to earn positive grades in it. Or perhaps something more simple as in becoming more independent by learning how to do your own laundry. In the nine ways of resilience, I’m sure we have or at least will face a problem where these key ways are going to benefit us with knowledge. In the meantime, let me tell you about one of my first challenges where I needed to become more resilient in certain ways.…
“Our history does not determine our destiny,” stated Boris Cyrulnik, author of Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free From the Past. Resilience can come from many places in a person, but when looking at the nature versus nurture perspective, it is nature that most strongly determines how resilient a person will be, and not based quite as much upon how they were nurtured. As Cyrulnik said, it is not our history, in other words, not how we’ve been previously nurtured, that determines what we will become, or how resilient we will be in times of trial.…
Nursing Can be a very demanding, therefore very stressfull (Chang et al. 2006). In the care of patient with HIV/AIDS, we can easily understand that the challenges the nurses face are even more intense , due to the nature of the disease. Nurses are caring for patients facing death and coping with family grief. Many litterature extensively discussed the resilience in childhood, adolescence , family crisis and in adulut patients with chronical conditions (Ruth E. Davis, 2002, M. A. Pickering , Jon H., B. Holliday, G.Ulmer , 2010, A. Hartmann, A. Bonnaud-Antignac, A. Cercle, G. Dabouis, F. Dravet, Garmezy, Masten, and Tellegen, 1984).…
The author begins her argument with a real life example of a nine year old boy whose mother is an alcoholic and a father who is gone. She then describes the boy's attitude and perseverance and how he ends up succeeding even through his traumatic childhood, thus achieving resilience. With this example she goes deeper into how children who experienced stress and difficult situations would be able to be resilient. After research, she informs the reader that there are two answers to resilient people one of which relies on luck and the other of the individual and their personality and experience. From this point of her argument, the author focus on these two groups. With her statement that some element of a resilient person relies on luck, she uses…
Resilience is about how an individual deals, resists, recovers and learns from adversity’s in life. If a child is resilient they are less likely to be damaged as a result of negative experiences and are more likely to learn from and move on. In order for a child to be resilient they need to believe in themselves and have others they can rely on in their lives.…
Seeking help is a form of resilience. It create awareness and builds up resilience over time. I’ve learned that being resilient is one of the key elements to finding inner peace. When you’re upset or frustrated, it is you and your body that you’re doing harm to the most and overtime if you learn to not sweat over little things, you’ll learn to not sweat over the big things and find an inner sense of peace no matter what life throws at…
Is the psychological strength to go on against all odds. The determination to move forward in spite of stress, adversity and truama. The ability to cope or face all storms and hardships with surprising strength. It involves maintaining mental health despite experiences with stressors, shown to carry significant risk for developing psychopathology. It is also the ability to bounce back from hard blows, such as extreme poverty and divorced or mentally ill parents. Overcoming appalling living conditions and horrifying life experiences. To turn out better than expected. Oprah Winfrey and Eleanor Roosevelt are examples of…