Explain the similarity between coping with stress and resilience
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An interesting and important question, it is good to see people really refining the terms they're using in this area. The literature surrounding resilience is large, messy, and includes many ongoing debates. Some believe resilience is a trait, others that it is a process influenced by malleable skills. Some believe resilience is only relevant to experiences of significant trauma, others say resilience is a typical behaviour all people do sometimes in their lives. I support the dynamic process view of resilience and go with Windle's definition: the process of effectively negotiating, adapting to, or managing significant sources of stress or trauma. My review of resilience literature has led me to believe that resilience involves protective, attenuating, and recovery factors and incorporates resources across personal, relational and environmental domains. Some of these resources are internal (such as dispositional optimism and adaptive coping behaviours) and others are external (such as useful government policies or access to a responsive and attuned social support network). So to answer your question, resilience is a process made up of many things including but not limited to adaptive coping behaviours. I hope this is helpful, happy to talk further.