Denis Flores
Resilience is the process of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging experiences through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility adjusting to external and internal demands.” Factors include adaptation to adversity, viewing and engaging with the world, availability and quality of social resources and specific coping strategies.
Adult Resilience Scale
The scale measures Threat Perception, Adjustment, Decision Making, Coping and Recovery providing a framework for developing resilience skills and capabilities.
Military Resilience
Originally in Special Forces, resilience development in the military addresses burnout combat fatigue. The SF selection process covers very arduous physical, emotional and intellectual examinations of fitness, strength, endurance and resolve in harsh terrain and climatic conditions. It aims to achieve realistic and optimistic thinking, build and maintain meaningful and trusting relationships, set and commit to goals and understand and control the level of physiological arousal. Resilience training is now integral to the military in many countries.
Ukraine Russia Conflict
In 2022, Ukrainian psychologists launched “combat resilience”, during the recovery and decompression phase, conducting psychoeducation, teaching self-regulation techniques and the first psychological aid protocol.
Volunteer Firefighters
Stressful incidents occur when members know the victims. They also leave properties and families vulnerable while fighting bushfires and experiencing personal danger. Resilience is a major contributor to success and longevity. .
Building Individual and Corporate Resilience
Resilient organisations adapt to major economic events, organisational crises and losses. They adjust quickly to new situations, recover from negative events, make the best possible judgments and are staffed and managed by resilient people.
Keywords: Resilience, Organisations, Measurement
