instrumental, practical, and emotional levels. Adults who have positive social support from their family and friends and feel a part of the community tend to deal more effectively with life’s difficulties. Therefore, having positive social contacts as well as meaning in one’s life can help buffer negative impacts of stress and life’s difficulties. The American Psychological Association (APA) recommends connecting with friends, family, and community as a way to increase resilience (APA, 2013). Optimism and hope. The APA additionally recommends adopting a hopeful outlook on life plus having a positive view of oneself. Having a positive view of life has been linked with increased resilience (American Psychological Association, 2013). Seligman …show more content…
However, the way each religion approaches resilience is different. There is a need for religion and resilience to become a central part of the field of mental health (Wolin, et al, 2009). Throughout the literature, there is support for individuals to use positive religious coping to help them deal with stress (Ano & Vasconcelles, 2005). However, Ano and Vasconcelles (2005) found in their metaanalysis that both positive and negative types of religious coping skills are associated with positive and negative responses to stress. In children, being a member of a religion, having a faith, and finding a sense of meaning in life, are all protective factors for being resilience to life’s difficulties (Masten & Wright, 2005). Also, survivors of the holocaust who were religious instrumental, practical, and emotional levels. Adults who have positive social support from their family and friends and feel a part of the community tend to deal more effectively with life’s …show more content…
Having a positive view of life has been linked with increased resilience (American Psychological Association, 2013). Seligman (2011) explained that an important part of fostering resilience is learning how 22 to be optimistic and how to change pessimistic thoughts into more adaptive and rational thought patterns. Therefore, having an optimistic and hopeful outlook is related to resilience. Religiosity and faith differences. The religions of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism all recognize that people have the ability to be resilient even though times of sorrow are an inevitable experience of human life (Wolin et al., 2009). However, the way each religion approaches resilience is different. There is a need for religion and resilience to become a central part of the field of mental health (Wolin, et al, 2009). Throughout the literature, there is support for individuals to use positive religious coping to help them deal with stress (Ano & Vasconcelles, 2005). However, Ano and Vasconcelles (2005) found in their metaanalysis that both positive and negative types of religious coping skills are associated with positive and negative responses to
...derneath. Relgious beliefs plays a very important in the creation and moulding of one's character and personality. One's destiny and fate can be determined with one's current living habits and ways, however with determination and hard workd, a hard life can be changed. Caring for the young physically can also represent the love transfer emotionally for the innocent. Sometimes desire and dedication can't change one to something they aren't meant to be, to something they aren't for there are many natural obstacles that exsist for a reason. These concepts play a valuable role not only in one's adventure in self-discovery, but also a trip around to discover and to live life. No matter what conditions and obstacles one face, one should always believe in themself for with hard work and determination, one should be and would be rewarded with valuables beyond this universe.
People are able to survive and thrive better with the help of others. That is why we form communities and build relationships.
However, some variation and possible novelty surfaced in this period of the lifespan. According to (Clark, Ouellette, Powell, & Milberg, 1987), in late adulthood, social interactions are more about communal orientation. Meaning that in this stage, friendships are deeply about the welfare of friends, concerns for friend’s well-being, and support, which portrayed this stage mainly about high quality relations. In his research, Field (1999) reported that late adults’ deep care for friend’s well-being is understandable for the fact that, older adults are in the stage where health issues often emerge, therefore, a sense of vulnerability arised. However, normative life events that retained social interactions in middle adulthood decrease because they are most likely release from family restraint, workforce responsibility and past personal obligations (Field,
Much success has come from religion in therapy. Success has occurred when used to cope with psychological disorders, preventing unhealthy
Children and adults that are familiar with God and that have been taught that God is love, often associated their traumatic experiences in a negative way to their spirituality. Children and adults may relate their trauma experienced to a retribution by a punitive God and it can disrupt their spiritual belief and connection with God or a divine being (Bryant-Davis, et al., 2012). Individuals’ that have experienced trauma at times develop a negative and unsafe view of the world. The world is no longer a safe place for them. This negative connotation of the world could lead to many adverse effects throughout the development stages of a person. It could lead to mental health as well as a complete rejection of one’s faith, and mistrust that can lead to the inhibition of formatting healthy relationships with others or with God. Although, children and adults could develop a negative view against their God due to the negative experience, spirituality can also be a source of strength and a mechanism that can lead to recovery. Many times victims of a traumatic event use their spirituality as a form of coping skill that leads to a better understanding and acceptance of their past or present circumstances. This positive view of spirituality can later be restored through means of different styles of
Other coping styles to acknowledge are optimism versus pessimism, where optimism is positively related to coping strategies that enhances adaptation to changed circumstances and overall psychological well-being. Studies showed that the psychosocial adjustment of optimistic individuals are higher (Miller, Manne, Taylor, Keates and Dougherty, 1996). Individual who resort to repression uses avoidance as a coping strategy in an effort to not have to deal with the threat (Krohne, 1996). When an individual exercise self-restraint or cognitive restraint as a coping mechanism, they and place themselves in control of the threat. This coping strategy also show a high correlation with psychosocial adaptation (Manne et al,
Some reearchers carried out studies to examine the association between resilience and positive emotion (Tugade, Fredrickson, & Barrett, 2004) Examining the role positive emotion plays in resilience, Ong et al. (2006) reported widows with high resilience levels experience more positive such as peaceful and negative anxious) emotions than those with widows with low resilience levels. The high resilience group showed greater emotional complexity which is ability to sustain the differentiation of positive and negative emotional states while underlying stress. They also suggested that the adaptive development of resilience is a function of an increment in emotional complexity while stress is present (Ong, Bergeman, Bisconti, & Wallace, 2006).
The first thing one must discuss in spirituality and resilience is that spirituality is different from being religious. Religion is general traditional and organized while spirituality is how a person essential relates to their higher power. There is much debate on which will help you have more resilience and how you cope with different trauma or stressors. While still others feel that religion and spiritual resilience go hand in hand.
According to psychology, the ability of humans to adapt to negative life situations and withstand stress and adversity is centered in a concept called resilience. An individual with resilience may experience the stress and pain that oppression and adversity brings; however, they are better able to control their negative emotions, rather than allowing these emotions to control their thoughts and actions. Resilience is not something people are born with or without, it is a trait that is developed. However, there are causational factors that contribute to the development of resilience. A few of these factors are: Having at least one close friendship and or having a
Religion was also found to have a positive effect on kindness and empathy (Colzato, Zech, Hommel, Verdonschot, van den Wildenberg, & Hsieh, 2012).
In counseling integration of Christianity into the therapeutic process has long been researched and developed. In order to get a good grasp as to what things or ideas would be a part of that process the individual must look into themselves as a therapist and decide how or what that integration process would look like for them. The difficulty in meshing Christianity and Psychology is that there will always be a degree of fealty to one side or another. According to Emmons, many studies have demonstrated that spirituality and religion are closely associated with psychological well-being but, there are also levels of spiritual maturity and an individual 's ability to forgive others to contend with. Throughout the course of this paper I will be discussing the integration process as I understand it and how it would relate to my own relationship to faith.
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There is evidence suggesting that attention to one’s spirituality influences the ability to cope with illness, help in the prevention of illn...
Strengthening Family Resilience Family resilience can be described as the successful coping of family members under adversity that enables support and cohesion within the family (Walsh, 2006). According to the research, resilient families typically have many of the following protective factors: positive outlook, spirituality, family member accord, flexibility, family communication, financial management, family time, shared recreation, routines and rituals, and outside support networks (Walsh, 2003). These protective factors not only serve as a function within the family structure, but are a factor in the therapeutic process. The family resilience perspective in therapy shifts away from a deficit-based lens that views struggling families as
Now in order to fully understand the importance of addressing the topics of religion and spirituality into therapy as well as with grasping the importance of becoming skilled at integrating these issues into counseling, it is of great importance to distinguish between spirituality and religion and knowing how a client identifies with each one. And with religion and spirituality playing significant roles in aiding emotional well-bein...