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\u201cResilience is a message of hope,\u201d says Debbie Alleyne, a child welfare specialist at the Center for Resilient Children at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health<\/a>, located in Villanova, PA.\u201cIt is important for everyone to know that no matter their experience, there is always hope for a positive outcome. Risk does not define destiny.\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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Sounds fantastic. But what exactly does resilience mean?<\/p>\n

Resilience<\/a> generally describes the bounce-back ability of individuals who return to the similar shape, form and condition after misfortune, harm or injury.<\/p>\n

But how does resilience work?<\/p>\n

Is resilience something one can ingest, like Popeye\u2019s spinach, to become stronger whenever out sized by stress? Can it be put on like Wonder Woman\u2019s bracelets to protect against threat? Can it be given, taken or shared?<\/p>\n

Is resilience an internal trait, an external circumstance or some mysterious blend of both?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always the debate about what\u2019s called state versus trait: Is (resilience) something enduring in a person or is it going to come and go from week to week? The answer is somewhere in the middle,\u201d says Dr. Jonathan R.T. Davidson, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and co-creator, with Dr. Kathryn M. Connor<\/a>, of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale<\/a> (CD-RISC).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we often considered to be enduring characteristics in people can, in fact, change over the course of several weeks in response to some appropriate prompting. So resilience is a bit of both.\u201d<\/p>\n

While working together at the Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Program at Duke University<\/a>\u00a0in 2003, Connor and Davidson noticed that some people with post-traumatic stress were \u201cable to bounce back better\u201d, he says, which is how they got interested in resilience.<\/p>\n

Full piece on ACEsTooHigh<\/a>\u00a0where is was originally published.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cResilience is a message of hope,\u201d says Debbie Alleyne, a child welfare specialist at the Center for Resilient Children at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health, located in Villanova, PA.\u201cIt is important for everyone to know that no matter their experience, there is always hope for a positive outcome. Risk does not define destiny.\u201d Sounds fantastic. 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