Innovative approaches to individual and community resilience: from theory to practice

Resilience is a multi-faceted phenomenon-it encompasses personal, interpersonal, and community experiences. On Resilience reviews the current research, and details differing levels and approaches to resilience. On a micro-level, the book specifies how to develop appropriate coping strategies, maintain cognitive flexibility, and identify, label, and share feelings before acting upon them. On a macro-level, it defines and explores environmental resilience, social resilience, community resilience, and family resilience and how utilizing healthy family and relationship support during critical times of trauma, as well as relying upon the bond of communities and a shared experience, can increase and enhance healing. It provides practical, specific applications for use in practice, and ends with implications for future research.

Defines "grit," achievement, positivity, and self-control. Addresses the spirituality component of resilience. Connects the concepts mindfulness, anxiety, and stress. Reflects upon the need for resilience as a clinician, and how to achieve it.