Importance of Resilience Essay

tragedies during out life time, but it is admiring to see how some people can use their experience to help others cope with what is left after tragedies. I feel resilience is something, we develop versus something that is given with in us and either we keep fighting and not give up or we lose ourselves in sorrows, and negativity. Resilience is something we mature into due to any negative situation, whether is coping with school and work or dealing with a major loss of any kind. Jessie Sholl…

An example of how I was resilient in high school is having to face the challenge of having to take care of my single, disabled mother who is a veteran while maintaining being a full time International Baccalaureate student and participating in varsity athletics. Taking care of my mother involves taking her to numerous medical appointments, performing many household duties, and taking care of the pets. These tasks are not hard but are time consuming when trying to accomplish all the daily…

Resilience as a construct is hard to define. In simplest terms, resilience can be described as a quality that makes one, particularly a child, exceptionally resistant to the negative effects of stress.(Tolan, 1996) However, in reality, characterizing resilience is much more complicated; the literature on trauma alone has at least 8 unique definitions for resilience.(Barber & Doty, 2013) Unsurprisingly, the unclear nature of resilience is one of the many arguments that are used to demonstrate its…

stronger than a person who never fell.” (Anonymous) Resilience is the capacity of recovering quickly after difficulties. Resilience is important, because you can learn from your mistakes and move forward. The pact is an agreement made by the three men from the book, The Pact. The pact is important, because this agreement made by the three men is to work as hard as possible and become doctors. The nonfiction book, The Pact, proves that resilience is made up of three aspects, social support, moral…

is defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and toughness. Correspondingly people like Joe Rantz, and Hitler who were looking forward to the Olympic Games of 1936, they would have to face their problems and difficulties with resilience in order for them to be prepared for the 1936 competition. As, an illustration of resiliency Joe would be a good example of this, because of his effort to survive without his family beside him. Ever since he was a child, he had to learn how to…

I believe that I have shown resilience my whole life, especially after my parents’ divorce. My mom was battling alcoholism, and it became my responsibility to take care of my family. Without dad around, I had to start cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, and taking care of my siblings. Things were extremely difficult at home, and we were assigned a social worker, Stephanie. Steph was very good at making sure we had what we needed. She was especially a good listener and helped me personally get…

According to Masten, Best, and Garmezy, 1990, resilience can be defined as "the capacity for or outcome of successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances" (AFT, 2012 p.34). In my experiences as a school counselor, I have dealt with many resilient students who have faced challenges that the average person may be unable to relate to. It is my job as an educator to instill many of these qualities relating to resilience in order to help them lead a productive and positive…

A Character of Resilience Education is a privilege that not everyone in the world gets to experience. One purpose of education is to teach you the knowledge and skills upon which you can build a career. Arguably, a more important purpose of education is to develop one’s character and shape them into outstanding members of the community. As a nursing major, I have the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and outside the classroom in a clinical setting. The clinical setting offers a…

“Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” –Jamais Cascio. Survival requires you to have aspiration even if something goes in the wrong direction and intelligence by creating useless items into useful items. In the excerpt Life of Pi by Yann Martel, it explains how Pi struggles to survive on a lifeboat with a large Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after a horrific…

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…