Resilience is defined as “the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”. In other words, it is the ability to not let a bad situation define us. Being resilient is a very important characteristic that we as a society must teach our children, especially with all the violence that is going on. Lately however, studies have been focusing on prevention rather than intervention. Preventing bad things from happening instead of intervening and fixing them later on. True it is more beneficial and cost effective, but what about those children in the intervention stage? Teaching resilience can be taught in either stage, making for stronger and wiser individuals.
How does one learn resilience? After all, you can’t learn the skill without going through bad times. Resilient people are ones who come out of a bad situation stronger. To be resilient one must have a fulfilled a sense of identity, knowing who they are and where they stand in the world. Knowing who you are, and who you want to be gives you reason to be resilient. So how is resilience learned? Here is a series of steps created by the American Psychological Association, which provides a brochure on how to develop resilience.
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