esilience in Children
Luther (2006) shows that in his study that throughout decades resilience has been a study so that people could understand relations with development, adaptation, and adversity (Luther 2006). With this collection of papers, he shows that there is a study of which resilience will enter a new era that is conflicted. Tarter et al. shows in their study that even with critics that want a resignation of the study of resilience due to the concept being static in nature, it still is being studied today (Tarter et al., 1999). Yates shows in a study with many authors that there is actually lots of potential for research in this field so that people can understand a future analysis and practice of this (Yates et al., 2004).
Sameroff and Luthar have observations that are truly timely and valuable in the research with resilience and all of people that provide a service.…...
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Cicchetti D, Rappaport J, Sandler I, Weissberg RP, eds. The promotion of wellness in children and adolescents. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America; 2000.
Egeland B, Carlson E, Sroufe LA. Resilience as process. Development and Psychopathology 1993;5(4):517-528.
, 2008; Bryan, 2005; Downey, 2008). By creating more effective environments and specifically crafted interactions with students, both individual and population-wide levels of academic resilience and academic buoyancy -- and thus eventual academic progress and success -- can be dramatically enhanced and increased.
A variety of extracurricular activities have been identified as having a positive impact on academic resilience, and in fact this effect is so broad that researchers suggest it is the structure of the activity rather than the activity itself that promotes evidence of academic resilience and certain skills identified with academic buoyancy (Peck et al., 2008; Martin & Marsh, 2009). The experiences, relationships, and responsibilities of extracurricular activities differ in significant ways from those related to standard academic progress, and it is believed that these lead to positive changes in the personal and psychological development of adolescents that in turn influences educational choices and behaviors (Peck et al.,…...
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Brackenreed, D. (2010). Resilience and Risk. International Education Studies 3(3): 111-21.
Brooks, J. (2010). School characteristics associated with the educational resilience of low-income and ethnic minority youth. Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. Accessed 29 February 2012. http://repositories.tdl.org/tdl-ir/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2176
Bryan, J. (2005). Fostering Educational Resilience and Achievement in Urban Schools Through School-Family- Community Partnerships. Professional School Counseling 8(3): 219-27.
Downey, J. (2008). Recommendations for Fostering Educational Resilience in the Classroom. Preventing School Failure 53(1): 56-64.
esilient Ministry: What Pastors Told Us about Surviving and Thriving. The book enables discussion on an important topic of resilience; how people remain resilient through difficult times by using faith and God to help them. Paul and his apostles, among other experiences in the Bible enable further understanding of what it takes to remain strong even under heavy forces. Whether one faces hardship, oppression, or any other negative influence, God and faith in one's self will drive away the darkness within one's heart.
Chapter 3-6 and 13 and 14 will be summarized along with three journal entries. These are meant to allow for personal reflection along with summary of material. At times people only learn when they can reflect upon what they have absorbed. Through the journal entries, a second layer of interpretation may allow for growth and understanding.
Introduction
Ministry can be a difficult task to get right. People have to…...
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Burns, B., Chapman, T., & Guthrie, D. (2013). Resilient ministry. IVP Books.
esilience
Mancini and Bonanno (2006) described resiliency as an ability to maintain "relatively stable, healthy levels of psychological and physical functioning" in spite of experiencing some type of very dramatic or disturbing event such as loss of loved one or some other emotionally taxing tragedy (p. 972). The authors also make the important point that resiliency is quite different from recovery in that individuals who are considered to be resilient demonstrate more stable levels of functioning before and after such experiences and less overt distress during such experiences. According to the article there are a number of characteristics that appear to be associated with resiliency and that people who undergo more extreme levels of distress in response to a traumatic event appear to be the exception rather than the norm. An additional factor that I believe to be important is the idea that resilience does not mean being uncaring or unfeeling,…...
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Frankl, V.E. (1985). Man's search for meaning. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Mancini, A.D., & Bonanno, G.A. (2006). Resilience in the face of potential trauma: Clinical practices and illustrations. Journal of clinical psychology, 62(8), 971-985.
Spiegelman, J.S., & Werth Jr., J.L. (2004). Don't forget about me: The experiences of therapists-in-training after a client has attempted or died by suicide. Women & Therapy, 28(1), 35-57.
Resilience, Inherited? Or Developed and Nurtured?
The study describes three requisite elements for resilience. There must be a significant risk factor or condition of adversity, resources to offset the effects of adversity and an adaptation that is positively skewed with an aim to avoid a similar adversity in future. The analysis, therefore, is anchored on the following definition that attempts to incorporate all the key elements. Thus, resilience is a strategy of negotiating, managing or adapting to trauma and similar sources of stress and strain. The resources in question in this respect are inherent within the individual. These must also be supplemented and complemented by the environment and life experiences in order to enable such capacity to come to their aid when need be. Resilience varies significantly across the course of life (Windle, 2011).
It has been found that long standing exposure to stressful conditions in the course of one's development produces…...
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Feder, A., Nestler, E., & Charney, D. (2010). Psychobiology and molecular genetics of resilience. Nat Rev Neurosci., 446-457.
Gillespie, C., Phifer, J., Bradley, B., & Ressler, K. (2009). Risk and resilience: genetic and environmental influences on development of the stress response. Depress Anxiety, 984-92.
Windle, G. (2011). What is resilience? A review and concept analysis. Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 152-169.
Resillience
In general, psychological resilience is the manner in which an individual can cope appropriately with stress and adversity. This copy may be the way the individual bounces back to normality after a setback or crisis, or simply a way to put negativity aside and not show stress. Typically, psychologists tend to understand resilience as a process, not as a trait (Ungar, ed., 2005). We must also understand that stress and adversity is a part of life. It happens to everyone at some time or another, and one of the things we as educators and adults can do to help children is to help them understand that at some time in their life, they will face a loss, grief, or serious issue.
Child psychologists believe that children need to learn about all types of experiences that are unique and will help them shape their adult personalities. . Many of these experiences are…...
mlaSources Consulted
Grotberg, E. (1994). A Guide to Promoting Resilience in Children: Strengthening the Human Spirit. Bernard Van leer Foundation. Retrieved from: http://resilnet.uiuc.edu/library/grotb95b.html
NASP Communications. (2011). Building Resilience: Helping Children Learn to Weather Tough Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nasponline.org/communications/spawareness/spweek2005_resilho.aspx
Ungar, M. (2005). Handbook for Working with Children and Youth. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Psychology of esilience
Describe three elements of resilience.
A healthy self-image or positive self-esteem is an important element of psychological resilience (Masten, 2001). Generally, that refers to an individual who usually interacts with others in a relaxed manner and without projecting any negative assumptions based in self doubt, negative expectations, or negative foundational beliefs. People with high self-esteem do not accept the proposition that negative experiences are their fault or that they are necessarily reflections of their worth or perceived worth in the eyes of others (
Supportive relationships are an essential element of psychological resilience (Landau & Saul, 2004). Generally, positive, long-term, and emotionally close and supportive relationships wit others promote resiliency both directly and indirectly. They support resilience directly by providing immediate encouragement, understanding, and empathy in difficult situations. They support resiliency indirectly in that they are usually fundamental components of the establishment of healthy self-esteem (
3. Maintenance of a broad…...
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Bonanno, G.A. "Loss, trauma, and human resilience: have we underestimated the human capacity to thrive after extremely aversive events?" American Psychologist, Vol.
59, No. 1 (2004): 20-28.
Landau, J. And Saul, J. Facilitating Family and Community Resilience in Response to Major Disaster. In I, F. Walsh and M. McGoldrick (Eds.), Living beyond Loss
(2004): 327-343. New York: Norton.
Holistic ecovery: Sustainable and esilient Communities
esearchers have long known that there is more to disaster recovery than disaster recovery agencies can possibly address. While these professionals play a key role in mitigating and responding to damages that may be incurred as the result of a disaster, ultimately the community members itself have to contribute to the recovery and their participation is a critical success factor to the resilience of a community. For example, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans it pointed out that many of the members of the community that were not necessarily considered to be socially sustainable did not intend to return to the city; approximately 39% of evacuees that were poor and Black (Campanella, 2006, p. 144). However, some individual communities from the same city and same event showed significantly more resilience. Examples of this can be provided by the Lower Ninth Ward and working-class Vietnamese American…...
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Barr, S., & Devine-Wright, P. (2012). Resilient communities: sustainabilities is transition. Local Environment, 525-532.
Campanella, T. (2006). Urban Resilience and the Recovery of New Orleans. Journal of the American Planning Association, 141-147.
Introduction to Sustainability. (n.d.).
Schwab, J. (n.d.). Next Steps in Creating Resilient Communities. American Planning Association, 158-168.
Moving forward is the goal, not finding reasons to continue negative coping mechanisms that did or did not work in the past.
SURVIVOR'S PRIDE: Survivor's pride is the justified pride in showing resillance in the face of personal difficulties. It may go unrecognized, especially if the survivor is highly competant.
REFRAMING: Reframing means resisting the self-justifying 'victim trap' and retelling the story of one's childhood in a positive fashion. It means that realizing people are not prisoners of their past, and that their own families are not condemned to repeat mistakes from the past in the future (olin & olin 5;51).
YOUR FAMILY PORTRAIT: hile I would like to think that I have not fallen victim to the victim trap mentality, and instead used my personal struggles as a means for growth according to the challenge model of personal dynamics, I would like to work more on my reframing of my ability…...
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Project Resilience. Official Website. 2008. http://projectresilience.com/framesconcepts.htm
Wolin, Steven & Sybil Wolin. The Resilient Self. Villard, 1993.
esilience
In the transition of children into adolescence and adulthood, there are several factors, which have an effect on their mental health together with their well-being. Such factors include life experiences, the social and physical surroundings, and the genetic/biological factors. Whereas one is not capable of predicting the outcomes of life for any child, in particular, one could make efforts to offer every child a positive start that shall assist them in dealing with various life challenges. Secure attachment connections in the early years lay down the foundations for the best emotional and social development and well-being. Encouraging the development of emotional and social skills, and a positive character calls for the need to present children with a secure and supportive surrounding -- emotionally, socially, and physically. Children learn by observing others and by the feedback they experience. The manner through which grown-ups communicate with kids in their daily care…...
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Nursing Influence
The author of this report has been asked to offer some insight and informed perspective about how nurses should be influenced by organizational nursing theory. Specifically, the author of this report will cite Polk's theory of resilience to answer this question. The manners in which the influence could or should render would include whether it is compelling for other professionals, whether it promotes sustainability, how it is related to the commission of collegiate nursing, how it influences the profession itself, how it influences the culture and how it can lead to change in the nursing industry overall. While organizational theory can easily delve into navel-gazing and the wasting of time, there are many theories and ideas in the nursing paradigm that could and should be taken very seriously.
Summary
Before getting to the answers found for most of the questions above, the author of this report will first focus on the…...
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Earvolino-Ramirez, M. (2007). Resilience: A Concept Analysis. Nursing Forum, 42(2),
73-82. doi:10.1111/j.1744-6198.2007.00070.x
Polk, L. (1997). Toward a middle-range theory of resilience. - PubMed - NCBI.
Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 14 July 2015, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9055026
Counseling
Harry James Potter was born in 1980, the son of James and Lily Potter. Both of Harry's parents died when Harry was an infant. The murder of his parents literally left Harry Potter scarred for life: his lightening bolt-shaped scar is one of his most distinguishing physical features. The orphaned Harry was forced to live with a distant family relative. The relatives are Muggles, and culturally distinct from Harry, who is part wizard.
Harry Potter studies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is aware that the Dark Lord Voldemort wants to kill him. However, Harry is about to face a serious crisis that will call into question his psychological resilience. The Ministry of Magic has undertaken a massive and coordinated attempt to undermine Harry's credibility. The Ministry's goal is sabotage of Harry's reputation, and his entire career as a wizard. Underlying the motivation of the Ministry of Magic…...
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Cherry, Kendra. "Trait Theory of Personality." About.com. Retrieved online: http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/trait-theory.htm
"Resilience: An Integrative Mini-Chapter," Chapter 13 in Marianne Miserandino's Personality Psychology: Foundations and Findings (Boston: Pearson, 2012, pp. 373-392).
"Social Cognitive Theory." Retrieved online: http://www.utwente.nl/cw/theorieenoverzicht/Theory%20Clusters/Health%20Communication/Social_cognitive_theory.doc/
Allouche, J. (2010). The sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems: Political analysis of the interplay between security, resource scarcity, political systems and global trade. Journal of Food Policy.
This article investigates current and potential strain on water and food production systems and aims at ensuring their sustainability and security. These strains are subjects of factors such as war/con-ict, economic crisis and climate change.
The paper looks at the long-term dynamics of global water and food systems in terms of sustainability and resilience and lays emphasis on possible conflict between global securities, allocation, resource scarcity and international trade as well as local coping strategies, power, social and gender relations and right-based social movements on the other.
This paper is significant in asserting the inconclusiveness of the fact that resource scarcity is a motivator of conflict, and that water and food insecurities are a product of socio-political issues. It predicts that water…...
mlaReferences
Allouche, J. (2010). The sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems: Political analysis of the interplay between security, resource scarcity, political systems and global trade. Journal of Food Policy.
Center for Sustainable Systems. (2011). U.S. Food System: Fact Sheets. Retrieved November 19, 2012, from
Lessons in GritGrit and resilience have always been my best qualities. Football injuries and negative health effects resulting from contracting COVID-19 put these qualities to test. I went from having a 4.0 GPA and being starting quarterback of our celebrated Pittsburgh high school football program to having to take neurocognitive therapy three times a week just to be able to learn how to focus, regain my baseline memory, and analyze problems. Throughout this process I never once questioned myself, regretted a thing, and doubted whether I could do it. Instead, I embraced the challenge as part of what makes life and what makes us who we are. As a result, today I am not only a high school graduate but also have a paid internship in a reputable financial services company that has given me the opportunity to develop my skills in basic accounting, digital and business-to-business marketing, sales, operations,…...
isk and esilience:
Accommodating the Needs of Our Children
The children and adolescents in today's America are at a high risk of failure, based on certain internal and external factors that may or may not have been chosen by them. The societal failure lifestyle does not have to be the future of any of America's children, each of who are able to lower such risk through personal choice and habitual experiences until the growth into their adulthood. When a child is placed under certain optimistic and good natured demands for personal success from educational institutions, parents, and themselves, it is then that they will be most capable in functioning in today's society.
The purpose of the article "isk and esilience," by Darlene Brackenreed was to introduce and discuss how risk and resilience relate to at-risk children. "At-risk" children were defined in the article as those with a predictable vulnerability or risk for…...
mlaReferences
Brackenreed, D. (2010). Resilience and Risk. International Education Studies, 3(3), 111-121.
Retrieved from Education Research Complete database.
Downey, J. (2008). Recommendations for Fostering Educational Resilience in the Classroom.
Preventing School Failure, 53(1), 56-64. Retrieved from Education Research Complete database.
The topic of violence is a broad one because violence is persuasive in our society, there are competing theories about the causes of violence, and violence begins to impact people at a very young age. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, there are eight types of violence children may be exposed to or experience: bullying, child maltreatment, community violence, domestic and intimate partner violence, school violence, sexual abuse and sexual violence, sex trafficking, and teen dating violence. These different types of violence not only impact children, but also adults in the community,....
Child sexual abuse is one of the more pervasive social issues of our time. Child sexual abuse has a profound impact on the families it impacts and a lingering impact on adult survivors of child sexual abuse. RAINN is a great general resource for information and can provide you with some links to research as well as helpful links for adult survivors who are seeking help. If you are looking for primary sources, then you can look for two different types of sources: first-hand accounts by survivors or direct evidence, which can....
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In today's rapidly evolving global economy, the supply chain industry plays a vital role in ensuring the efficient flow of goods and services. However, South Africa's supply chain sector faces a significant skills gap, hindering its growth and competitiveness. To address this challenge, it is essential to identify and cultivate generic, transferable, core, or key attributes that can bridge this gap effectively. This essay will discuss the different forms of such attributes....
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