Resilience

(Siriwardhana, 2014) Clients who struggle with their life management has to rely on survival instincts in order to establish and maintain their quality of life. In order to maintain a reasonable quality of life the client must be willing to grow. The resilience approach focuses on the dynamic interplay between periods of gradual and sudden change and how to adapt to and shape change. (Folke, 2015) A counselor must aid the client in discovering something worth fighting which in turn be the…

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…

Article Information Resilience is the procedure of familiarizing with important sources of stress such as family and health problems or workplace and financial problems that could cause stress. It said in the article that people showed resilience after the 9/11 attacks by rebuilding their lives with what little they had. The primary factor in resilience is having relationships that are caring and supportive. Relationships that create the factors for care and support provide a role model that…

resilient. Resilience is an attribute that I have but never really thought about until it was difficult for me to bounce back. I had to learn to be resilient at a really young age. My mother is addicted to drugs and alcohol. I was lucky enough to grow up with my dad with limited visits with my mother. I still had to consistently deal with the consequences of her actions. Learning to bounce back was easy for me, until I had to be more intentional about how I did learn to create resilience within…

Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. It means “bouncing back” from difficult experiences. (American Psychological Association, 2017). Rogerson and Ermes, 2008 propose resilience is the ability to persevere and thrive in the face of exposure to adverse situations. Resilience come from a Latin…

1. In the Montgomery (2010) article, how is resilience defined? • Montgomery defines resilience as the ability to recover from, rather than the absence of problems at arrival in Denmark. • Many definitions of resilience have been presented. • In general resilience is defined as… the development an individual has adapting following adversity/maladaptation. Resilience can depend on relationships, interactions, environmental factors. • “Spring Back / Bounce Back” • 2. What are some of the…

What does it mean to be resilient? When I think of resilience, I think of my prior experiences of overcoming my biggest challenges in life. I pushed myself through pain and frustration to improve my life. During my early teens, as a result of being overweight, I faced difficulties such as bullies and health problems. I felt that there would be no end to my suffering. I was overwhelmed with anxiety and depression. My doctors constantly reminded me of my issues, saying, “You need to lose weight!”.…

“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…

Is student resilience declining? A lot of educators believe it is. Some students just have a hard time making it on there own. Is this because there parents doing everything for them? Is this because of their previous teachers not pushing them enough or could it be just plain laziness? According to studies today it could be a combination of all three. The question is what are we going to do about it. Resilience has been a key word when talking about education for a long time now. Advocates say…

Social workers are often expected to use the concepts risk and resilience to assist clients with overcoming adversity as well as identifying their strengths as a source of intervention. Fraser, Richman, & Galinsky (1999) has defined risk as “the probabilistically as any influence that increases the likelihood of the onset of a problem or maintains a problem state” (Fraser, Richman, & Galinsky, 1999). Although social workers assist clients in reducing risk, they also assist clients with adapting…