PSY336H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Grief Counseling, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mindset
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Point 1: resilience is different from recovery. Resilience: the ability to maintain a stable equilibrium. Protective factors that foster the development of positive outcomes and healthy personality characteristics among children exposed to unfavorable or aversive life circumstances. Resilience is more than the simple absence of psychopathology. May be harmful for many bereaved individuals to engage in practices of grief. Grief work processes are appropriate for only a subset of bereaved individuals, most likely those actively struggling with the most severe levels of grief and distress. The effectiveness of reliving traumatic experiences for individuals with. Ptsd may have helped blur the distinction between recovery and resilience. Resilience to the unsettling effects of interpersonal loss is not rare but relatively common, does not appear to indicate pathology but rather healthy adjustment, and does not lead to delayed grief reactions. Research generally shows that chronic depression and distress tend to occur in 10% to 15% of bereaved individuals.
