Psychological resilience

How to Relieve Stress With Mindfulness Are you sometimes stressed? Worrying about trivial things? Anxious about any outcomes? Feeling uptight at home or at work? Restless, sleepless, fatigued? Is your mind chattering too much? Do you know how to truly relax and find inner peace? If you are like 100 million Americans that according to surveys are stressed daily or weekly, stress is an issue that can take a toll on your mental and physical health. Occasional stress can be a good thing, but it…

Parents Caring for a Child with a Mental Disorder Parents caring for a child with a mental disorder can experience the phenomenon of psychological stress (Dyson, 1997; Manning, Wainwright, & Bennett, 2011; McStay & Trembath, 2014; Paynter, Riley, Beamish, Davies, & Milford, 2013; Wolf, Noh, Fisman, & Speechly, 1989). A mental disorder is an impairment in psychological or behavioural tendencies, which may cause a person to show disruptive, violent or harmful behaviour to themselves or others…

providers to find ways of improving their services. Not only by pinpointing resilience in clients but also finding ways of encouraging resilience in sub optimal situations, especially with children. As children face developmental delays when faced with significant risk and adversity, it is important that their psychological and physiological needs are taken into account by all types of service providers. The idea of childhood resilience is very important in the case of Jessica White, the ways in…

Loring Jones’s article Measuring Resiliency and Its Predictors in Recently Discharged Foster Youth is a study where 97 foster youth are interviewed six months after they are discharged from the foster care system. The study took place at a foster care residence that uses a “residential education” approach. This means the emphasis at this facility was on education and social development. The interview is used to see how resilient the youth are based on predetermined predictors for being resilient…

Nursing has been a rewarding and satisfying career for many years. However, the workload can put stress on someone. The topic I choose to write about is stress management and reduction for nurses. I choose this topic because nursing can be a stressful career and with the right management techniques can help overcome these stress mechanisms. Someday I will be a nurse and it will be beneficial for me to learn some of these techniques. I will also do a group presentation for my class about this and…

Additional ways of strengthening resilience may be helpful. The key is to identify ways that are likely to work well for you as part of your own personal strategy for fostering resilience.” (The Road to Resilience, n.d.) With support from the counselor, family and friends anyone can overcome a crisis. References Kanel, K. (2015). A Guide to Crisis Intervention. In K. Kanel, A Guide to Crisis Intervention. Stamford, : Cengage Learning. The Road to Resilience. (n.d.). Retrieved…

educators and mental health experts put together a social and emotional learning program to help these individuals. The program’s aim is to teach the teachers skills of mindfulness and resilience, to then bring into their own lives, and to teach these educators how to balance their personal and professional lives. Inner Resilience has many core platforms, ranging from residential retreats, professional workshops, inner life series, parent workshops and a set K-8 curriculum for teachers. Though…

Journal Activity 2.4: Risk and resilience factors for child mental health There are many resources that are uncovered through a basic internet search for the terms ‘child mental health risk factors’ and ‘child mental health resilience’. Some of the sources are scholarly and peer reviewed while others are more popular and mainstream in nature. In order to enhance my previous learning in the course, I selected to review scholarly resources from a number of research journals as well as…

There is little research on individual resilience factors for Canadian Aboriginal; however, there is still some research that discusses possible factors that might increase a risk for Canadian Aboriginal individuals on poor adjustment. First, this essay analyzed three different articles to determine…

Technological advancements can vary in different fields of the healthcare realm. One such advancement in the mental health field is prevention and intervention. In Dr. Paul R. Ahr’s article “Community Mental Health Principles: A 40-Year Case Study”, he discussed that although the Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) Act of 1963 required the CMHCs to provide prevention and intervention, budget cuts in the 1980s made it difficult, but Missouri has prevailed in this requirement (Ahr, 2005,…