Relevance, Importance of Resilience

"You just throw stones at the tree loaded with fruit." Every day we act on the stage belongs to us according to our role and face challenges, changes, testing often required of each person to properly use your potential, not only lest they perish, be trapped by the effects, but also to give way to that creativity, innovation that allows us to illuminate and take the opportunity to know that bequeaths life, especially when facing critical situations, conditions. Says positiva.com psychology, resilience is the ability of a person or group to continue projecting in the future despite destabilizing events of hardship and trauma sometimes serious. Resilience is located in a stream of positive psychology and dynamics of mental health promotion and seems to be a reality confirmed by the testimony of many people who, despite having experienced a traumatic situation, have managed to fit it and continue with life-even in a higher level, as if the trauma and assumed they had developed in latent and unsuspected resources. Wikipedia about it reminds us that the concept was introduced in the psychological realm into the 70's by psychiatrist Michael Rutter-paid, directly inspired by the concept of physics.

In the behaviorist view Rutter, resilience was reduced to a sort of "social flexibility" adaptive. The concept was deepened to transcend through, for example, investigations Boris Cyrulnik ethologist, who extended the concept of resilience watching the survivors of concentration camps, children in Romanian orphanages and street children in Bolivia . In psychology, the term resilience refers to the ability of individuals to overcome death or periods of emotional pain. When an individual or group animal is capable of doing, is said to have adequate resilience, and can overcome setbacks or even be strengthened by them. The concept of resilience corresponds to the term integrity. Do not forget that psychological resilience is the result of multiple processes that counteract the harmful situations, it is a dynamic in which one could point out the following steps: Defend and protect the balance to the stress faced Commitment and Challenges The significance and value overcoming the self-positivity Accountability Creativity

Positiva.com about psychology gives us that the concept of strong character first appears in the scientific literature in 1972, in relation to the idea of ​​protection against stressors. Kobasa and Maddi are the authors who developed the concept, through the study of those who face negative life events seemed to have some personality characteristics that protected them. It has been established that resilient people have a strong sense of commitment, a strong sense of control over events and are more open to changes in life, while they tend to interpret stressful and painful experiences as part over the existence, in general, is considered a multifactorial construct three main components: commitment, control and challenge. The concept of personality is closely linked resistance to existentialism. Faff Gino, told us about, that resilience is built from the illuminating of the human being from their strengths, assuming the potential of every individual to develop. L to second edge is the idea of ​​diversity, of difference. The resilience theory takes meaning from the differences in reaction to adverse circumstances, generating stress.

While some people succumb to these circumstances, showing imbalances and disorders at various levels. Others develop successfully despite adversity. To the extent that we are surprised inattentive, where the results have been adverse, we wake up, ready to feed back our weaknesses, strengthen optimize the use of our potential and give rise to actions that help us grow to ensure that we take advantage of the weaknesses , failures, learning that favors us. It reminds us that resilience in terms of engineering is the ability of a material to regain its original shape after being subjected to a deforming pressure. Applying it to the person, is to know out in front of all those adverse situations that we face, not decline, stagnate, on the contrary enliven our calls, give rise to our potential to manifest all actions that encourage us forward. For management, the face of adversity that can be presented to the failure of some plans, strategies that have affected the development of the business under their charge, you should take advantage of to make way for new plans, functions to ensure success, organizational climate conducive always very positive for everyone.

It is very true when it says, that as human beings, despite living in different conditions each be at least at some point in life we ​​have problems bottoming out. In fact, sometimes said to be bottoming out in order to become aware and up. Since we left if we overwhelmed by this kind of situation, our lives lose all drive and direction. The fact that each fall, practice makes perfect and gives the opportunity to generate changes that will encourage and enable us to grow as people. How can the resilience favor us in our growth in the roles we play? Of course it is necessary to know, determine where our strengths, weaknesses, how we manage our assertiveness, self-perception and vision of life, our conduct, behavior, how to face the facts, how are our responsibility, how much we identify with our true values, ethics., how careful we are in everything in which we act, how we interrelate. Gino A. Raffo Carla Rammsy and give us some points that internally strengthen personal power: Social support from within and outside the family emotionally positive educational environment, open and rules-based guidance.

Social models to stimulate a constructive behavior. Balance of social responsibilities and performance requirements. Cognitive skills. Behavioral traits that favor an effective approach. Experience of self-efficacy, self-confidence and positive self-concept. Positive action against stress inducers. Exercise of meaning, structure and meaning in their own growth. * Suggested Reading. -Barudy, J. and Marquebreucq, A.P. (2005) Daughters and mothers resilient. Childhood trauma in extreme situations, violence, war, genocide, persecution and exile. Madrid. Gedisa, 2006-Cyrulnik, B. (2001) The ducklings feos.La resilience: An unhappy childhood does not determine life. Madrid.Gedisa, 2002-Cyrulnik, B. (2002) The whisper of ghosts. Madrid. Gedisa, 2003-Cyrulnik, B., Manciaux, M. and others (2003) The realism of hope. Madrid. Gedisa, 2004-Manciaux, M. (2001) Resilience: resist and remake. Madrid.Gedisa, 2003

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