Week 7: Understanding Resiliance Flashcards
The maintenance, recovery or improvement in mental or physical health following challenge is referred to as…
resilience
In the case of Romanian orphans adopted by American families, how did they rate and appear at baseline and 2 years post-adoption?
Baseline - IQ below 85, insecure detachment behaviours like rocking, hitting and/or clinginess.
2 years later - 35% showed none of the above, 35% sowed only 1 or 2.
The best outcomes for Romanian orphans resulted from being adopted before the age of…
6 months
Resilience can be thought of as a psychosical equivalent to…
an immune system
What is the difference between recovery and resilience?
Recovery - Period of symptoms over a long time frame with a gradual return to previous functioning
Resilience - Maintaining a relatively stable and healthy level of functioning despite traumatic experiences.
What are the 4 criteria for PTSD?
- Exposure to a traumatic event
- Intrusive recollection of the event
- Avoidant/numbing
- Hyper-arousal
50% of Americans are exposed to traumatic stress.
What % will likely have PTSD?
5-10%
What are some of the traumatic events that caused PTSD in the US?
Serving in Gulf war, LA riots, Assault, Car accidents, 9/11.
Resilient youths from low SES backgrounds are found to have…
Self-regulatory skills (internal processes that modulate thought, behaviour and attention and use specific mechanisms to guide goal-directed activities)
Immediately following trauma, what is a Crisis of Safety?
Shattered belief of invulnerability
Immediately following a trauma, what is a Crisis of Meaning?
Shattered belief in a just world that is meaningful and comprehensible
Immediately following a trauma, what is a Crisis of Self?
Viewing ourselves in a negative light.
What are the positive changes in the perception of self following trauma?
Increased sense of personal strength and identity as a survivor not a victim.
What are the positive changes in relationships following trauma?
Closer ties to and appreciation of family.
Greater disclosure to others
More compassion for others
What are the positive changes in life priorities following trauma?
Appreciation for fragility of life and what is important.
Less concern for acquiring material possessions and status.
