Childhood Resilience

Childhood Resilience

Introduction

Resilience is a concept borrowed from physics and refers to the ability of a body to resist shock. In social science, it means the ability to succeed, to live and develop positively, in a socially acceptable, despite the stress or adversity which normally include the serious risk of a negative outcome (Pratiwi, 2011). The resilience has its origins in the theory of psychological development and human. This word generally describes the ability of the individual to face a difficult or major stress. It is not only effective, but that could create better ability to react to a problem later (Cicchetti, 1997).

Emotional Recovery 

Resilience is the ability of a child or adult to recover from a physical or emotional problem, a crisis, stress or trauma in life. Resilience is the emotional foundation that will help children to be strong emotionally for the rest of their lives. Resilience allows children to believe in themselves, and become even more optimistic. If this basis is encouraged early on, then kids will have a healthy emotional life of adults. They may be able to withstand in any circumstances in their life. 

If children do not develop the ability to recover, they will be unable to successfully withstand with the emotional problems that will inevitably face in their life (Carli, Mandelli, Zaninotto, Roy, Recchia, Stoppia & Serretti, 2011). If kids are not preferred to face the problems on their heads will never struggle to solve any problems in their lives. Without the skills of dealing with problems or the inner strength to cope with tough situations, children may develop symptoms of sadness in terms of social and emotional well-being creating the disturbance in their physical health (Masten, 1990). 

What can be resilient?

Resilience can be made possible utilizing various factors, like family which is more important aspect for grooming and building the intellectual skills of a child. The mental health of the parents is also important factor, along with their intellect investment in their child from birth to provide children the feelings of security and self worth. The factor of education can also be considered as resilience because it appears to be the most substantial factor in making resilience possible (Carli et al, 2011). However, in the first two years of life that are most important for the psychological construction of a child, the child has to receive adequate and responsive relationships with parents without the intervention of ruptures or destructive events mismanaged or unmanageable. It can develop a sense of security and confidence in oneself and in others. It also creates a sense of self esteem and confidence in its ability to cause events and reactions in others. For the resilient child, it is sufficiently positive for him or her to take the gamble out of a risky situation, to successfully manage change. It builds on previous positive experiences of success or recovery to imagine another and make it happen (Luthar, 2000). The development is also possible for resilience factors. It is referring to cognitive and affective possibilities available to the child for understanding ...