Resilience

The Importance of Resilience Education A research study was conducted by Melissa E. DeRoiser, Ellen Frank, Victor Schwartz, and Kevin A. Leary, a panel of doctors and physicians in fields related to psychology, to explore the relationships between stress during the transition to the college life experienced by incoming freshmen and how this stress affects their lives (DeRoiser, Frank, Schwartz & Leary, 2013). The panel created a series of questionnaires via Student Curriculum on Resilience Education (SCoRE), that were completed by 644 first-year students from seven different universities across the eastern United States. The largest portion of the testing subjects were Caucasian females. The questionnaires were grouped into six different categories based on the stressors they faced. The categories included: academic behavior, time management, financial concerns, practical tasks, identity issues, and social…

Several research studies discuss risk factors of SI and SA. However, few researchers have examined factors that reduce the likelihood of SI and SA 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…

The dictionary defines resilience as "the ability to recover readily from adversity", or as it's more commonly known, the ability to "bounce back". Adversity is something we, as humans, will unquestionably have to endure throughout our lives. In the biography Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis Zamperini, or Louie, faces his own form of adversity. As Louie demonstrates through his constant tribulations, the utmost essential component for being a "resilient individual" is having an internal…

Santos of the Clermont Graduate University (2012) described resilience as the power or skill to back from normal shape. It is the ability to surpass from some break-up, stress, change or problems. Resilience stems from Latin word (resiliens) and originally referred as able to bend without breaking or being elastic. Shonkoff (2011), the chief of Center on the Developing Child at Harvard Resilience stated that depending on the support, response and mastery of capabilities can help to engaged and…

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…

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…

With resiliency becoming such a popular theme within the social work profession, it is becoming increasingly important for social workers and social service 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…

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. …

I see resilience as the ability to adapt to changing situations, not giving up when the going gets tough, rising above and beyond difficult circumstances, and the ability to cope or ‘bounce back’ when you surpass your own comfort zone (Youth Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, p 14, n.d.). Spending a week out in the Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park was a sure test of resilience, we often found ourselves in a position we weren’t accustomed to, whether that be using ‘dug’ to…

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…