From Waugh reading

Question 1

resilience factors and factors for therapy

Answer 1

one working definition of resilience is the process of experiencing some significant stressor and returning to pre-stressor levels of functioning without ever experiencing significant dysfunction or psychopathology

• One of the traditional approaches to resilience research is the person centred approach in which investigators characterize resilience in people by identifying those who have experienced significant life adversity, but who have never exhibited significant dysfunction or psychopathology.
• There are theory and evidence, however, that suggest that resilience is not a static, unitary property of the person, but rather a dynamic, multidimensional process. For example, argue that there is no such thing as “the resilient person”, but rather people with different resilient trajectories

Question 2

Factors to target in therapy

Answer 2

1. stress recovery
2. positivity
3. flexibility