Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.
A number of factors contribute to how well people adapt to adversities, predominant among them:
- the ways in which individuals view and engage with the world
- the availability and quality of social resources
- specific coping strategies
Psychological research demonstrates that the resources and skills associated with more positive adaptation (i.e., greater resilience) can be cultivated and practiced.
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Continuing education
Adapting to Potential Trauma with Flexible Responding
Distinguish prototypical patterns of trauma reactions, and apply knowledge of divergent response patterns to clinical practice or in mental health settings.
Conceptualize immigrant clients’ psychological distress from a strengths-based, culturally affirming, and systems-oriented perspective.
Differentiate between the concepts of secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue and the factors that confer risk or resilience.
Using Praise to Enhance Student Resilience and Learning
Discuss how to use praise in the classroom that fosters a constructive mindset.
