Resilience

Psychological resilience is defined as an individual's ability to successfully adapt to life tasks in the face of social disadvantage or highly adverse conditions. The film “Rudy” provides one example, and role model, of someone coming back from a negative experience. In my own life, I have faced many hardships when it comes to family. Whether it often being a death in the family, which is quite often since Irish people seem to drop like flies, or a financial struggle that affects the peace…

Resilience can be defined as positive adaption in the face of adversity (Easterbrooks, Ginsbury, & Lerner, 2013). In order for individuals, families, or communities to be resilient it allows each unit to recover from trauma and continual stressors successful. Resilience can show in individuals and families if they are able to continue to function healthfully under extensive amounts of stressors (Farrell, Bowen, & Swick, 2014). There are many different factors that can contribute to the level of…

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…

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…

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…

How can social connectedness foster patient resilience? Potential implications for health care practice and health campaigns Background: Resilience is one’s capacity to maintain or regain well-being in the face of adversity, such as having a physical illness (Stewart & Yuen, 2011). Building health resilience has become a prominent health care goal and identifying the factors that allow people to adapt successfully to a negative life event is becoming more and more important (Wulff, Donato, &…

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…

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…

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…

For years, I’ve reflected on what qualities enable people to overcome adversity. I believe my journey exemplifies that one answer is a synthesis of initiative and resilience. From foster care, to a broken home, to military service, to two tours of duty in the Middle East, initiative and resilience have steered me to where I am today. I was born into poverty to an immigrant mother. When I was 2, my mother’s drug addiction caused me to be placed into the Los Angeles County foster care system. I…