Resilience Unit

Question 1

What is the definition of resilience?

Answer 1

“The ability to bounce back, cope, and/or adjust successfully despite substantial adversity” (UPSONHI, 2022)

Question 2

What is the scope of resilience?

Answer 2

From less than optimal resilience to more than optimal resilience

Question 3

How is protective factors of resilience defined?

Answer 3

factors that protect an individual, family, community, or system from harm despite substantial challenges or traumatic events

Question 4

What are different factors/ examples of protective factors?

Answer 4

internal family, close friends, quality of relationships, wider social environment, community, environmental impacts

Question 5

What is the definition of rebounding?

Answer 5

to return to a previous level of functioning following a traumatic event

Question 6

What can rebounding look like?

Answer 6

In a couple years after a natural disaster has wiped out a town things are rebuilt and people are working as they used to

Question 7

How is reintagration defined?

Answer 7

The process of healing and returning to previous roles, and functioning after a traumatic event

Question 8

What is an example of reintargration?

Answer 8

Someone who expericnes a trauma of some sort, learns from it, and then goes into a profession because of it