Resilience
- The positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe
- Also indicate a characteristic of resistance to future negative events
Resilient People
- Believe they can directly influence the events that occur in their lives and translate their beliefs into actions
- More likely to see change as an opportunity for growth rather than a stressor
- Able to derive meaning from failure
- Learned how to stop their anxiety and doubts from overwhelming them
Factors that promote resilience
- Optimism
- Ability to cope with stress
- holding the belief that there is something you can do to manage your feelings
- having social support
- use humour
Ways to Build Resilience
- Keep things in perspective
- Take decisive actions
- Help people and get help from people
- Anticipate and accept changes
- Nurture a +ve view of self
- Work towards goals
- Maintain a hopeful outlook
- Take care of yourself
- Learn from your experience
- Learn new things about yourself
Summary - Resilience involves
- Letting yourself experience strong emotions and also realizing when you may need to avoid experiencing them at times in order to continue functioning
- Stepping forward and taking action to deal with your problems and meet the demands of daily living, and also stepping back to rest and re-energize yourself
- Spending time with loved ones to gain support and encouragement
- Relying on others, and also relying on yourself
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