Psychological resilience

My story of resilience began on April 17th, 1981. I was born to a 15-year-old, unwed mother. She and I were abandoned by my biological father when I was an infant. My mother didn’t finish high school, struggled with alcoholism and was often unemployed or underemployed during my childhood. You might imagine the challenges I encountered as a child due to these circumstances. What you’re imagining is probably accurate. I’ll spare the details because that is not the defining part of my story.…

As a construct, resilience has been studied by researchers for a number of years. Researchers observed that children and youth could cope and adapt despite being exposed to risk and adversity. Adolescence is especially considered to be a period of vulnerability for most young people as they often participate in high risk behaviors (DeChesnay, 2005; Erikson, 1968). Further, these individuals who are in their early college years are often faced with the developmental challenges of this…

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…

life’s obstacles every day. Sometimes the obstacles that I face can be hurdled over, but most have to be dealt with. I have been on many overseas tours with the U.S. Army, and have learned how to be resilient in coping with stressful situations. Resilience is, according to Harrington (2012),”An individual’s response and methods used to allow them to successfully navigate through or past an event perceived to be stressful” (p. 27). One obstacle I have had to overcome is being away from my family…

Resilience is when children who face adversity, are able to utilize skills to keep them imbalance. These children are able to manage these circumstances based on their interactions and environment. After reviewing Treatments that Work, I selected ARC: Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency: A Comprehensive Framework for Intervention with Complexly Traumatized Youth. This treatment uses the primary targets as building blocks for intervention. Treatment is provided to both male and females…

My idea of resiliency has been changed drastically over this past semester. I have always used the future to drive me through past adversities that I was facing. By focusing on what I still need to do rather than on what happened. In the long term I don’t think this is good for me because I still struggle with a lot of things that have happened – even those that are in the distant past. I think this is because I chose to not talk about things but instead just ignore them and move on. This…

among adolescents. Resilience in adolescents is often overlooked when faced with the task to target risk factors of SI and SA. Resilience theory provides the framework for considering the strengths or protective factors of an adolescent when implementing an intervention to SI and SA. Much research on SI and SA focus on factors that contribute to an increased likelihood of suicidal behavior while little research have examined factors that reduce suicidal behaviors. Resilience theory is a…