Title: What Is Resilience? Definition, Types, Building Resiliency, Benefits, and Resources | Everyday Health
Headings: What Is Resilience? Your Guide to Facing Life’s Challenges, Adversities, and Crises
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Content: 20 Tips for Building and Cultivating Your Resilience
While individuals process trauma and adversity in different ways, there are certain protective factors that help build resilience by improving coping skills and adaptability. These factors include: Social Support Research published in 2015 in the journal Ecology and Society showed that social systems that provide support in times of crisis or trauma support resilience in the individual. ( 3) Social support can include immediate or extended family, community, friends, and organizations. Realistic Planning The ability to make and carry out realistic plans helps individuals play to their strengths and focus on achievable goals. Self-Esteem A positive sense of self and confidence in one’s strengths can stave off feelings of helplessness when confronted with adversity. Coping Skills Coping and problem-solving skills help empower a person who has to work through adversity and overcome hardship. Communication Skills Being able to communicate clearly and effectively helps people seek support, mobilize resources, and take action. Emotional Regulation The capacity to manage potentially overwhelming emotions (or seek assistance to work through them) helps people maintain focus when overcoming a challenge. Research on resilience theory shows that it is imperative to manage an individual’s immediate environment and promote protective factors while addressing demands and stressors that the individual faces. (