Overcoming Trauma Research Paper

Prompt 1- Overcoming Trauma: The Development of Resilience The term “resilience” tends to be thrown around in the fields of psychology, developmental psychopathology, and child development rather loosely. It may be used in the manner of being a lofty term to describe an individual, a personality trait that is attributed to them, that they are resilient, not that they have resilience. A more comprehensive understanding of resilience may come from the developmental psychopathology perspective in which resilience is growing to be more than just a personality trait, but inclusive to context and dimensionality. One possible definition of resilience is that it is a dynamic and transactional process using both protective and risk factors balancing within and external to the individual to produce positive adaptations in spite or presence of adversity or trauma. Factors such as temperament, intelligence, personality, biology, and attachment are all potential factors in the degree of one’s resilience (Lecture and textbook). The most important things to remember about resilience is that it is highly individualized, differences between siblings can be very dramatic, as is illustrated by the case of Neesha Wilson. Resilience is also potentially …show more content…
The argument was made that since an individual experiences privilege, that they may not be subjected to as much adversity in life. Because of this, an individual with privilege may not develop the same degree of privilege as someone who has faced adversity early in life. Thus when they eventually face adversity they are at a disadvantage, while they may still successfully navigate through the experience, they will likely experience a greater level of stress than someone with a greater degree of