Resilience Theory Resilience The dictionary meaning of Resilience

Resilience Theory

• Resilience: The dictionary meaning of Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. • Ability to bounce back from difficult experiences. • Resilience is that quality which allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. • Resilience itself could be seen as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the face of challenging or threatening circumstances (Veselksa, Geckova, Orosova, Gajdosova, van Dijk, & Reijneveld, 2008).

Resiliency Theory • Resiliency Theory provides a conceptual framework for considering a strengths-based approach to understanding child and adolescent development. • Resiliency theory supplies the conceptual framework for studying and understanding why some youth grow up to be healthy adults in spite of risks exposure.

• Resiliency focuses attention on positive contextual, social, and individual variables that interfere, restrict or disrupt developmental trails from risk to problem behaviors, mental distress, and poor health outcomes.

• These positive contextual, social, and individual variables are called Promotive Factors. • These factors operate in opposition to risk factors, and help youth overcome negative effects of risk exposure.

• Resiliency theory provides a useful framework for considering how promotive factors may operate for encouraging positive youth development. • Resiliency theory provides a framework for studying and understanding that how some youth overcome risk exposure and guides the development of interventions for prevention using a strengths based approaches.

• Furthermore, there are identified two types of Promotive Factors i. e. Assets and Resources. • Assets refer to those Positive factors that reside within individuals i. e. the personal strengths, such as selfefficacy and self-esteem etc. • Resources refer to factors outside individuals i. e. external resources or protective factors such parental support, adults mentors and youth programs that provide youth with opportunities to learn and practice skills.

• All of these factors are linked with the positive youth development. • Assets and resources provide youth with the individual and contextual attributes necessary for healthy development.

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• Resiliency theory includes several models that describe how promotive factors may counter or protect youth from the negative effects of risks. • The main models includes, • Compensatory Model • Protective Factor Model • Challenge Model