Resilience
After listening to at least 5 clips from different illness categories and reading about resilience and coping, consider how the “patients” are demonstrating (or not) the traits and coping strategies discussed in the material for this module. You have to identity which 5 videos you are discussing, and correctly apply the concepts and terms from this unit to your observations of the interviews for full points. List what coping strategies they used.
Finally, reflect on your own resilience. How resilient do you believe you are? What kinds of coping mechanisms do you use under intense pressure? Are they helpful or not so productive?
This is a very thorough website from the UK exploring different aspects of Positive Psychology. For the assignment, you only need to understand the section on “Resilience” to apply the concepts to case studies.
http://www.centreforconfidence.co.uk/pp/overview.php?p=c2lkPTU=
This is an article from the NYT magazine on March 25, 2012 about the new research into resilience with trauma survivors (veterans, in this case). As you read it, consider how it also applies to coping and resilience in other types of trauma, as well as for individuals with chronic or traumatic illnesses.
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