Resilience
Resilience
Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural 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.
*Sourced by American Psychological Association
RESOURCES
Building Resilience – https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience/building-your-resilience
Resilience in Teens – https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience/bounce-teens
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Phone: 1800 497 197 (AUS)/ 0800 466 400 (NZ)
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