Pros And Cons Of Resilience

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
Thus, corresponding changes in operational constructs did not attune with the general usage of the term. Consequently, it has been argued that misconceptions and misunderstandings of the term “resilience” found their way into studies and affected the way clinicians approached particular patients with treatments. As such, positive psychology and neuropsychology approaches have integrated more measures to estimate a path of resilience to recovery, by including several other terms that elasticise the expanding operational nature of clinical assessments. “Recovery” measures the extent to which the individual is challenged and impaired after the traumatic event but manages to return to their baseline function. “Resistance” measures levels of minor psychological effects post-trauma, and “reconfiguration” defines an altered state of existence brought about in order to accommodate the trauma. “Reconfiguration” may be deemed almost the opposite to resilience on the trauma scale, and is largely a characteristic observed in individuals suffering from