Resilience Exercise
Around the world, many people are faced with adversities and constant obstacles in their life that they will have to overcome. People often have to face adversities such as death, poverty, illness, disabilities, and environmental issues on a daily. Many people can overcome the adversities they are faced with, while others may struggle and need help overcoming their situation. Never the less if a person fails or succeeds in their attempt of overcoming their situation, this is still a part of their resilience. In the Jake article Dr. Ungar showed how counseling can be used to people overcome their adversities and reach resilience. Dr. Ungar took into consideration from the beginning that everyone’s situation is different and every case should be handled differently. He really pushed Jake to resilience
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In this approach being exposed to a modest level of risk can actually help youth overcome exposures that could make them vulnerable to negative outcomes. Challenging a child is essential in the initial risk exposure and a child must be challenged in order to help build coping skills to overcome their situation. In Jake’s case he was challenged to do something that many children faced with the same adversities could never do. Dr. Ungar challenged Jake to become an advocate for his father and Jake stepped up to the challenge. With all of the adversities, like his long list of diagnosis, and poor school records in his way he still stepped up to advocate for his father, as well as bettering himself by attending school more frequently, and agreeing to seeking help from professional regularly. This really shows that children in high risk exposure in any period of their life can still break through the stereotypes and come out on top. Through counseling, mentoring, and parental support any child in a high risk environment can rise up and become
Resiliency is one concept that has never been the human races forte. Many things that happen in our current day and age require a great deal of perseverance and resiliency. People often will give in to the problems in their lives and learn to accept them, instead of persevering through them and working out the issues. The fact of the matter is, if you learn to persevere through problems, your life will be a lot more happy and pleasant to live. In Tennessee Williams’ play, “ A Streetcar Named Desire” suggests that you cannot give up on issues; you must be resilient to those issues and persevere to be happy.
Most times, the lasting result becomes increasingly sweet with realization, metamorphosis, and helpful action. As each individual experiences despair, resulting action varies. Yet no matter how minuscule or substantial the problem at large is, the presence of acting accordingly to cease the problem remains perpetual. With collaboration of ideas and seeking guidance from groups, one comes to find assurance and advice that of which unveil the truth and the knowing it takes to remove any problem all together. An immediate chain like response occurs, almost like a wake up call, sounding loudly and abruptly, even after snooze was set, to clearly dictate that action needs to be taken. When proper action is taken, then miraculous life will
Tragedy strikes at every hour of the day, no matter where in the world a person lives. The true test of a person’s humanity is how they handle the tragedy. All over the country, people are hit with life-changing catastrophes and feel hopeless. Taking their feelings out on others around them who are just trying to help, their pain translates into the bad traits of humanity such as selfishness, conceitedness, and unreliability. Others, though, work through their struggles and show the world how strong they can really be.
Resiliency is the ability to push through physical, mental, and emotional challenges. People should always strive to be resilient and never give up in any situation and to always stay positive
Resilience and hardiness has long been a topic of research and discussion within different paradigms and fields of study, for example, in military psychology, psychiatry, health statistics and measurement, medical anthropology, education, medicine and organizational settings. Resilience means the skills, abilities, acquaintance, and insight that accumulate over time as people struggle to conquer adversity and meet challenges. It is an ongoing and developing fund of energy and skill that can be used in current struggles (Saleebey, 1996; Liebenberg, 2005).Most commonly, the term resilience has come to mean an individual's ability to overcome adversity and continue his or her normal development.
According to the American Psychological Association, resilience is the process of adjusting enough in the presence of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or major sources of stress such as financial and workplace problems, family/ relationship problems, and severe health problems or workplace and financial stressors (American Psychological Association, 2013).
People who choose not to show resilience share in the risk factors that contribute to resilience. Low income poses as a risk factor towards resiliency, for many having a low income can prevent them from moving forward in their life and can avert them and their families from having the ability to overcome life stresses that may come in their way. For example, a single mother with a low income may struggle to demonstrate resilience to her children, as it may be tough for her to pay the rent of her small apartment and pay for their shopping with her little income. In the health care setting, health care professionals may have problems contributing to holding them back from showing resilience such as, the health care professional may have to care for a patient that is suffering from a similar illness to a person close to the health care professional. This may cause for the health care professional to ‘hide-away’ and not want to face their problems. A health care professional may also be having a tough time in their home-life and it makes it difficult for them to adapt to the stress and adversity of their
book remains a true testimony to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.
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For instance, I learned that one major component of resilience is physical health. Thus, it is imperative for children to eat well, exercise, and get six to eight hours of sleep each night. Another component of resilience is school support. This means that children need support from another adult that does not pertain to their family, such as a school counselor. Furthermore, I learned several strategies that schools and teachers can implement to help their students overcome traumatic experiences. For example, I learned that teachers should keep familiar routines, maintain high expectations for their students, and avoid focusing on their students’ negative behaviors. In addition, schools can be flexible and give these students time to speak to their teachers, counselors, or staff members. Talking to any of these individuals helps students express their feelings instead of bottling them up. Overall, this article helped me acquire more knowledge on resilience and strategies that I can one day use with my future
When Life Gets Harder, Challenge Yourself to Be Stronger Overcoming challenges are what makes people stronger and only when one conquers the challenges they face are they able to proceed in life and become successful. Challenges limit and discourage a person, not allowing one to reach their full potential. The importance of the theme of challenge is portrayed in MacKinlay Kantor’s short story, “A Man Who Had No Eyes”, as it demonstrates the beneficial outcomes for those who overcome challenges. First, a character’s ability to respond to a challenge positively impacts their life. However, on the other hand, a character who fails and struggles to respond to a challenge, will have negative impacts in their life.
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Modern day organizations have to constantly change to meet the demands of customers. Workers have to change with the organizations to be able to perform new functions and complete new sophisticated tasks.
People don't truly accept life for what it is until they've actually tasted adversity and went through those misfortunes and suffering. We are put through many hardships in life, and we learn to understand and deal with those issues along the way. We find that life isn't just about finding one's self, but about creating and learning from our experiences and background. Adversity shapes what we are and who we become as individuals. Yann Martel's Life of Pi shows us that adverse situations help shape a person's identity and play a significant role in one's lief by determining one's capabilities and potential, shaping one's beliefs and values, and defining the importance and meaning of one's self.
From my understanding, I have come to view resilience as the art of not dwelling. This personal definition, I recognize, only summarizes half of the word’s meaning, not even touching on the action of recovery. I chose to view it in this way because, I find it helps me to find it manageable. I often struggle with experiencing difficulties or changes, I often find myself internalizing my problems which leads me to introspection and self doubt. By concentrating on a single facet I am able to better manage resilience. Despite my choice to ignore the second half on the word’s meaning, by choosing not to dwell, I have found recovery becomes easier to achieve. As a person who prefers math and science, problem solving from an analytical perspective is an enjoyable task, but when emotions are involved the process gets derailed or takes longer. I have found that using my strategy of not dwelling I am able to analytically look at my situation and consider my next steps to