Promoting resilience and questioning resilience [Blog]

Thompson, Miles

Abstract

Your 30-second summary. This blog is about resilience. A term that is now, seemingly, everywhere. Below I provide a quick overview of the term and of psychological research into the resilience of children. Then I contrast these research findings which note multiple contributing factors at multiple levels, with the focus of many resilience interventions: often the individual in isolation. I note how this reflects an old but important debate within psychology that sparked the emergence of community psychology from clinical psychology in the 1960s. I also explore how resilience researchers today are adopting the same guiding frameworks as community psychologists. This again might make us wonder about the appropriateness of individually focused resilience interventions when what make us all more or less resilient might stem from broader, more systemic levels.

• Other Type: Other
• Publication Date: Nov 16, 2018
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/857074
• Publisher URL: https://blogs.uwe.ac.uk/psychological-sciences/promoting-resilience-and-questioning-resilience/
• Related Public URLs: https://blogs.uwe.ac.uk/psychological-sciences/promoting-resilience-and-questioning-resilience/