...Resilience and Spirituality Jessica Polster Liberty University Abstract Resilience or bouncing back after trauma, happens to all people at some time in their life. Whether that be after the death of a family member, seeing combat, watching a friend die, being abused, there are many forms of trauma that people deal with on a day-to-day basis. “The term resilience is used across a variety of domains” (Dees, 2011). How someone bounces back after the trauma plays a big role in how they will live out the rest of their lives. Some people after a trauma occurs make sure they guard their current relationships of the people who had helped them out. They also might rethink their future, maybe they need a job change, maybe it’s that person’s turn to comfort someone else who is hurting. The most important piece in bouncing back is God and where He falls in the picture. One’s spiritual influence can help aid them in the healing process by choosing forgiveness and gratitude. Spirituality and resilience can ultimately go hand in hand when talking about trauma and healing. Resilience and Spiritualty Resilience is a normal part of life. Everyone who experiences trauma at some point gets to the bouncing back stage. How someone ultimately gets to the point where they are able bounce back is major. Spirituality plays a major role in being able to accomplish the Resilience Life Cycle. Resilience “Resilience is the ability for individuals, leaders and organizations to take a hard hit and...
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...Resilience and Spirituality Jessica Polster Liberty University Abstract Resilience or bouncing back after trauma, happens to all people at some time in their life. Whether that be after the death of a family member, seeing combat, watching a friend die, being abused, there are many forms of trauma that people deal with on a day-to-day basis. “The term resilience is used across a variety of domains†(Dees, 2011). How someone bounces back after the trauma plays a big role in how they will live out the rest of their lives. Some people after a trauma occurs make sure they guard their current relationships of the people who had helped them out. They also might rethink their future, maybe they need a job change, maybe it’s that person’s turn to comfort someone else who is hurting. The most important piece in bouncing back is God and where He falls in the picture. One’s spiritual influence can help aid them in the healing process by choosing forgiveness and gratitude. Spirituality and resilience can ultimately go hand in hand when talking about trauma and healing. Resilience and Spiritualty Resilience is a normal part of life. Everyone who experiences trauma at some point gets to the bouncing back stage. How someone ultimately gets to the point where they are able bounce back is major. Spirituality plays a major role in being able to accomplish the Resilience Life Cycle. Resilience “Resilience is the ability for individuals, leaders and organizations to take a hard...
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...Resilience and Spirituality In: Philosophy and Psychology Resilience and Spirituality Abstract Through the course of researching and writing the paper some very interesting things about resilience and spirituality have been observed. While one would assume that a person that exhibits great faith would be very resilient, that is not always the case. Resilience comes from an inner strength that can be magnified by a strong faith. In order for a person to truly have a high level of resilience, they must also have a strong faith. That faith does not have to be in God but it does have to be a faith in something that you believe with protect you and see you through life’s trials. While a belief in something other than God many help a person in the short term, it will ultimately fail them as everything falls short of the Lord. What is Resilience? Simply defined, resilience is the ability bounce back or recoil after being mashed, twisted, or bent. This is a fitting definition as I know that when I have been faced with trauma, I often felt mashed, twisted, or bent. It is such a simple word with a simple meaning but putting into action can often feel almost impossible. Putting this into action requires strength. A person needs to have a strong resolve and a strong faith in order to bounce back in the face of trauma. We are faced with some sort of trauma on an almost daily basis (Maddi, 2013). From the moment we are born we are participating...
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...1. Resilience is defined as the ability to defy stress and catastrophe. Humans have the ability to adapt and overcome risk and adversity. People are able to be resilient by pushing through the emotions, effects of stress and devastating events. 2. There are various factors of maintaining and developing resilience. Some factors include a positive outlook on life, spirituality, active coping, self-confidence, learning and making meaning and acceptance of limits. Developing and maintaining a positive outlook on life includes finding something to laugh about, calming and comforting yourself, recharge yourself before the next situation. It is also important to take time to relax and have time to yourself. An example of doing this is incorporating spirituality in your life by ways such as praying, meditating, or relaying on a value system or a set of guiding life principles. Active coping includes never giving up on trying to solve problem and seeking help when you need it. Being confident means expecting that you can handle the problem and knowing you will be able to bounce back from the stressful situation. Looking for meaning in the experience and understanding that bad things can and do happen to anyone. Accepting your limits means putting things into perspective and realize you will have times of joy and times of sadness. Through practising these factors, mental resilience will be a skill you will accomplish. 3. To destroy your resilience all you basically have to do...
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...Resilience and Spirituality Abstract Through the course of researching and writing the paper some very interesting things about resilience and spirituality have been observed. While one would assume that a person that exhibits great faith would be very resilient, that is not always the case. Resilience comes from an inner strength that can be magnified by a strong faith. In order for a person to truly have a high level of resilience, they must also have a strong faith. That faith does not have to be in God but it does have to be a faith in something that you believe with protect you and see you through life’s trials. While a belief in something other than God many help a person in the short term, it will ultimately fail them as everything falls short of the Lord. What is Resilience? Simply defined, resilience is the ability bounce back or recoil after being mashed, twisted, or bent. This is a fitting definition as I know that when I have been faced with trauma, I often felt mashed, twisted, or bent. It is such a simple word with a simple meaning but putting into action can often feel almost impossible. Putting this into action requires strength. A person needs to have a strong resolve and a strong faith in order to bounce back in the face of trauma. We are faced with some sort of trauma on an almost daily basis (Maddi, 2013). From the moment we are born we are participating in the Resilience Life Cycle (Dees & Huckabee, 2011). This applies...
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...factors displayed throughout the article on some of his experiences while growing up. We are able to recognize components such as resilience, race, spirituality, and mental health. This paper will focus on these different elements and how they were defined in Shawn’s life. We will also discuss how a bio-psycho social approach may help us better understand human behavior in the social environment. In Shawn’s life, we see a great deal of risk and resilience that displays a wonderful example of what each factor may look like. Shawn, who spends a great amount of his young life falling into his own stereotype, finds a way to break the chains of the standards that he was born into. At 11 years old, he was a messenger for the neighborhood drug dealers. Two years later, he had a .25 caliber pistol and headed down a very dark path. However, when Shawn was 17 years old, he turned his life around. He was the co-captain of his track team, an honor student and a youth leader at his church. Although, he had hit a high point in his life, Shawn began stumbling upon a reoccurring dream that spoke of the violent environment that he had been a part of for so long which made him realize he had to break away. Shawn’s father was a heavy drinker and drug user, who left him and his mother when he was 13 years old. We see an extraordinary amount of resilience as he makes an attempt to build his own separate identity from what society views as a typical young black male. Despite expressions...
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...According to Merriam-Webster, trauma is defined as a serious injury or wound to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent; a very difficult or unpleasant experience that causes a person to have mental or emotional disturbances, usually for an extended period of time. There are many types of trauma that can affect a child’s development, specifically neural development. One pervasive form of trauma to children is Shaken Baby Syndrome. Shaken Baby Syndrome is a simple descriptive for a disturbing cluster of subdural and subarachnoid hemorrhage, traction type metaphyseal fractures, and retinal hemorrhage seen in children due to the act of violently shaking the child (Miehl, 2005). Shaken Baby Syndrome us an extremely vicious act of abuse that can result in numerous neurological, cognitive, and functional disabilities and deficits. In more severe cases, death is the result of Shaken Baby Syndrome. While there are many obvious and immediate symptoms of Shaken Baby Syndrome such as vomiting, lethargy, respiratory distress, seizure activity, decreased consciousness, increased intracranial pressure, and retinal hemorrhage; there are as many if not more permanent and long range ramifications (Miehl, 2005). Traumatic brain injuries that occur when the brain of the child is severely shaken inside the cranial cavity cause irreparable damage. Survivors of Shaken Baby Syndrome possess some degree of neurological and/or cognitive deficiency and exhibit seizure disorders, cerebral...
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...Trauma, Development, and Spirituality According to the American Association of Children’s Residential Centers (AACRC), trauma is considered to be the result of occurrences of mental or physical injury such as sexual or physical abuse sexual abuse, seeing brutality, or natural tragedy (AACRC, 2014). But trauma is not limited to events per se; alternatively, trauma can also be brought about by occurrences of daily living that are emotional in nature and not quite as obvious. Traumatic stress can be evoked by trials surrounding relationships, physical issues, severe neglect, or by circumstances that overpower a person’s ability to adjust (American Association of Children’s Residential Centers, 2014). This essay will discuss how culture can influence traumatic experiences, the impact of trauma on neurobiological development, and how spiritual development can counter the effects of trauma. Cross Cultural View of Trauma Research conducted in Western countries has typically revealed a disproportionately large percentage of accounts of abuse of children among ethnic minority groups. However, mistreatment is not primarily connected to any particular ethnic group, but has been regarded as a global issue (World Health Organization [WHO], 2002 as cited by Cyr, Michel, & Dumais, 2013). The intricacy of examining child abuse from a culturally diverse viewpoint can be made clear by a number of components impeding the progress of awareness about this issue. Specifically, despite the fact...
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...Stress Management An Individual and Organiza5onal Challenge Youtube link Some Statistics § 46% of working adults view their jobs as very stressful or extremely stressful (NIOSH) § 81% percent of respondents suffer from the ill effects of stress at least once a week (AMA) § 80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help (Gallup 2000) § Health care costs are 147% higher for those who are stressed or depressed (1999, 46,000 workers) § In a survey of medical and personnel directors of Fortune 1,000 companies, 70% said mental health problems were fairly or very pervasive. § Stress costs employers about $150 billion annually in workers compensation claims, absenteeism, turnover, and health and disability claims, reducing profits by about 10%. For additional alarming statistics see: http://www.stress.org/job.htm; see also “Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform” 3 Overview Wolford A model for stress and how to reduce it Time Management Emotion Regulation and Decision Making 5 John Wolford Case 1. Do you relate to him?* 2. Was he a dumb guy? Ill-intentioned? Deliberately wanted to hurt his family? 3. What did he do that was unnecessary? 4. What could he learn to do better? 5. What is his fundamental leadership assumption? 6. Would you like to work for him? 7. Does he need help?* 6 ...
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...Resilience PSYC101-09H Dr. Stelter/Jourdan December, 13 2014 (Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Wolford, Vance, Howard, & Ashley, 2014, Trauma Exposure, Psychiatric Disorders, and Resiliency in Juvenile-Justice-Involved Youth, 430–437 ) The topic of this article is about how resilience and other psychiatric disorders plays a part in the lives of juveniles that are involved in the justice system that have exposure to traumatic events. The researcher’s rationale for this research was to prove that resilience might play a role in the negative outcomes of traumatic exposure in the youth that were involved in this study. This study consisted of a total of 350 juvenile who were all in some way involved with the justice system. The methods used in this research were in web-based survey forms that were administered by a third party such as a juvenile probation or parole officer. The participants were identified only by numbers so they could remain anonymous and to ensure confidentiality. In conclusion, the researchers confirms that the more juvenile-justice-Involved youth experience more traumatic events the more chances they have of developing resilience or other psychiatric disorders based on their research. (Burrow-Sánchez, Corrales, Jensen, & Meyers, 2014, Resilience in a Sample of Mexican American Adolescents With Substance Use Disorders, Psychological Assessment, 1038-1043) The top of this article is about measuring resilience in Latino American adolescents who have substance...
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...1. According to a recent survey, ______ of Americans report having people in their lives they can trust and turn to for support. A. only about half B. 60 percent C. 75 percent D. almost all 2. Which of the following makes it more likely that two people will develop a romantic relationship? A. proximity B. having different opinions and attitudes C. differing physical characteristics such as age and attractiveness D. differing levels of educational attainment 3. Which of the following means standing up for yourself without violating the rights of others? A. aggressiveness B. assertiveness C. passiveness D. companionship 4. According to Deborah Tannen (“That’s Not What I Meant; You Just Don’t Understand, et al.), men are more likely than women to use communication to A. compete. B. connect. C. create intimacy. D. look for common ground. 5. Which of the following is typically characteristic of men rather than women, according to the gender differences in communication found by Deborah Tannen? A. Men tend to believe a question is not simply a question but the opening for a negotiation. B. Men tend to believe the goal is to “fix” the problem being communicated. C. Men tend to appreciate discussion as evidence of involvement. D. Men are inclined to do what is asked of them. 6. One’s biological status as a male or female, usually established...
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...significant aspect of this orientation is the tendency to view adversities as something that can happen to anyone and is reflected in the tendency of people entering uncertain contexts to prepare by imagining a range of possible outcomes. Positive psychology represents a branch of psychological science concerned with understanding the development of well-being, virtue and resilience. One standpoint is that wellbeing, virtue and resilience are achieved by complex strivings that are not attributable simply to being optimistic. Meaning focusing on the positive, expressing positive emotions and leaving the negative behind. This does not mean that there are no negative thoughts or emotions but rather that it plays an important role in health, wellbeing and personal growth ( Davis, Asliturk). 1. Build Positive Beliefs in Your Abilities Research has demonstrated that self-esteem plays an important role in coping with stress and recovering from difficult events. Remind yourself of your strengths and accomplishments. Becoming more confident about your own ability to respond and deal with crisis is a great way to build resilience for the future. 2. Find a Sense of Purpose in Your Life After her 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunk driver, Candace Lightner founded Mother's Against Drunk Driving (MADD). Upset by the driver's light sentence, Lightner decided to focus her energy into creating awareness of the dangers of drunk driving. "I promised myself on the day of Cary’s death that I...
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...we seem, we open ourselves up to a wide range of positive experiences, including true love and belonging. From there, the guideposts get progressively shorter and Brown touches on the concepts of resiliency, gratitude, joy, intuition, faith, competition, calm, stillness, self-doubt, and control. Although they are just as important and impactful as the first few guideposts, these concepts are less “chewy” and Brown allows for more open interpretation of what they mean to each reader. In my own journey, the most impactful concepts in these next guideposts are resilience, faith, play and rest, and calmness. When cultivating resilience, we must be resourceful and reach out with our sense of connection. Without that connection, finding the strength to overcome is nearly inconceivable. Resilience is a kind of spirituality, and that spirituality brings a sense of perspective and purpose to our lives. That same sense of spirituality brings to light our dependence on faith and intuition. Faith and reason are not mutually exclusive, but pieces in our lives that clash and create tension. Faith is not a substitute for certainty when reason fails, instead faith is where we find the courage to believe in what is not visible, and discover the strength within ourselves to let go of uncertainty. When we choose to embark on the journey to wholehearted living, faith is inescapable. As Brown puts it, “engaging in wholehearted living requires believing without seeing.” One critical part of wholehearted...
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...RESILLIENCE Resilience is the ability of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. It can also be defined as “exhibiting positive behavior even when even in adversity, threats tragedy etc.” it is the ability to bounce back after a disruption. It also means mental toughness, emotional toughness. Commonly used terms closely related to this word are; psychological resilience, emotional resilience, hardiness, resourcefulness and mental toughness. Resilience is also a construct concerning the exposure of adversity and the positive adjustment outcomes of that adversity. Adversity could be defined as any risk associated with negative life conditions that are statistically related to adjustment difficulties, such as poverty, experiences of disasters e.t.c. positive adaptation after these experiences can be termed as the absence of psychiatric distress. Resilience can be defined in many different ways, adequately accounting for cultural and contextual differences in how people or other systems expressed resilience. This is also where a different definition comes up as “the outcome from negotiations between individuals and their environments for the resources to define themselves as healthy amidst conditions collectively viewed as adverse.” Resilience can be viewed as: * Good outcomes regardless of high risk status * Constant competence under stress * Recovery from trauma and * Using challenges for growth that makes future hardships more tolerable. Resilient...
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...The article entitled, "Where there's a Will, There's a Way", gave a very well informed explanation concerning Resilience. The author went into grave details concerning the specific definition that Resilience is, "a psychological study of individuals and groups in adverse circumstances"(Harrington,2012). "Resilience research analyzes why some people go on to experience more problems, while others develop into adults who can contribute positively to society (Werner, 2004),(Harrington,2012). This very statement gave room to spark such a revelation of testimony within me. As a child, I was raised in a neglected home riddled with physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Being raised in this environment, caused emotional trauma, deep hurt and rejection to burrow within my soul. This environment fragmented the core of my being, which left me shattered from watching, hearing, and experiencing so many things no one should have seen, let alone a child! I didn't grow up in a solid foundation of Christ but what I did have was Religion, which led us to more Confusion, and eventually chaos. Hosea 4:6 says that, "my people are destroyed...
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