Psychological resilience has become a popular concept. Owing to that popularity, the word
resilience has taken on myriad and often overlapping meanings. To be a useful framework …

In considering resilience to stress there are several key organizing principles that will aid
both research and understanding. Understanding resilience is critical to illumination of the …

This chapter describes the major developments in the field of resilience since its inception
more than 40 years ago, and presents a brief history on resilience. It elucidates critical …

This article examines potential theoretical constraints on resilience across levels of risk,
time, and domain of outcome. Studies of resilience are reviewed as they relate to the …

As is clearly indicated in the chapters of this volume, research on resilience has sought to
explain why some (often the majority) of individuals show adaptive functioning in the context …

The purpose of this chapter was to examine the relationship between potential resources for
resilience and resilience itself. The Brief Resilience Scale [Smith et al.(International Journal …

In this paper, inspired by the plenary panel at the 2013 meeting of the International Society
for Traumatic Stress Studies, Dr. Steven Southwick (chair) and multidisciplinary panelists …

Complex aspects of human functioning are not always neatly deconstructed by researchers
or neatly reconstructed for intentional application. Such is the case for the construct of …

The focus of this article is on the interface between research on resilience—a construct
representing positive adaptation despite adversity—and the applications of this work to the …

The social sciences have no particular claim to the use of the term “resilience.” The word has
been in general circulation for centuries and over time has taken on a variety of meanings. In …