Exploring the Role of Resilience in Overcoming Traumatic Experiences
Keywords:
Resilience, Traumatic experiences, Overcoming, Psychological resilienceAbstract
This research examines resilience in trauma survivors. Trauma includes abuse, accidents, natural calamities, and conflict. Some people are psychologically resilient, adapting, recovering, and even thriving after tragedy. To understand resilience and trauma recovery, the study will combine psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences. The research examines resilience literature, theories, and empirical investigations to identify essential components and processes that lead to trauma resiliency. Social support networks, positive coping methods, self-efficacy, and adaptive cognitive processes will be examined as resilience protective variables. The research will also investigate biochemical and genetic indicators of resilience. Cognitive reappraisal, meaning-making, post-traumatic development, and neuroplasticity will be investigated as resilience mechanisms. The research explores these pathways to show how trauma survivors might build resilience. This study may help clinicians design treatments and therapies to help trauma survivors recover. Mental health providers may better adapt therapies to trauma survivors by studying resilience variables.
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