RESILIENCE

When talking about resilience we refer to the ability of a person or a group to recover from adversity to continue projecting the future. Sometimes, difficult circumstances or traumas allow developing resources that were latent and that the individual was unaware so far.

The analysis of psychology regarding resilience has changed over the years. For a long time, these types of responses were considered unusual or pathological. However, current psychologists recognize that it is a common response as a form of adjustment in the face of adversity.
Resilience for positive psychology
Positive psychology considers problems as challenges, which are confronted and overcome by people thanks to resilience. There are different circumstances that will favor or not the development of resilience in each man, such as education, family relationships and the social context.

Specialists say that resilience is linked to self-esteem, so it is important to work with children from a young age so that they can develop this capacity healthily.
According to Michel Manciaux, who knows the subject, there are people who, when facing a trauma or a misfortune, allow them to overcome them, but there are others who do not allow it and who manage to continue with their lives without problems. Even, he says, many take this attitude to a higher level and transform that trauma into something positive; that is to say, that problem helps them to develop resources to survive that they believed they did not possess.
It should be noted that psychology has taken the concept of engineering resilience, where it refers to the magnitude that quantifies the amount of energy absorbed by a material when it is broken by an impact. The calculation is made based on the breaking surface unit.

Educate in resilience
It is known that a child with good self-esteem will be transformed into an adult with good capacity for resilience, so he will be prepared to overcome the obstacles he encounters throughout his life.
It is important that children are guided during their first stage of life efficiently, in order to develop a constructive way of facing life; that they are motivated positively so that they can face the different situations that could come their way and manage to cope without suffering a deep damage.
All parents should be aware that the happiness of their children will not be something caused by chance or good luck; Nothing is further from reality. One of the greatest responsibilities of parents is to make available to their children a series of positive tools that help to build a high level of resilience in the face of problems; for this it is ideal to provide them with understanding, optimism, good humor, affection and help them to accept and trust in themselves. On the contrary, those children who are mistreated, humiliated or misunderstood are less likely to cope with conflicts in a healthy way.

The concept in ecology
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the concept is also used in ecology to refer to those communities that can overcome the momentary changes in the environment without modifying their way of interacting with it. An ecosystem with good resilience is one that contains a large number of species and that diversity is what allows it to cope with the various disturbances that may arise in the environment.
Within this same idea of ​​survival, other variants of the concept in ecology are the ability of a system to self-manage and organize itself, which would be firmly linked to the previous point (the system would gather the tools it needs to face the changes without that these generate a transformation in the bases of said space).