Cross- Cultural Entitlement and Resilience: A Suggestion for Western Cognitive Therapy

Abstract

The focus of this review is to qualitatively research the cross-national dissonance between psychiatric findings suggesting that affluent countries of the West suffer a greater prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders as compared to countries of the Developing world that are proven more resilient. The author of the paper has aggregated the multiple definitions of resilience, has detected examples of its disparity across different countries and has analyzed cognitions of the developing world that are reinforcing it, differences in cognition between the Developing and the Western world as well as a sense of entitlement and other cognitions of the Western world that counteract it. Through a parallel analysis of entitlement -based cognitions of the Western world and of adaptive cognitions of the Developing world, the author suggests a resilience-promoting cognitive therapy route, in which the latter can act as superior alternatives to the former.

Mental Resilience in Education: The Case of Greek High Schools Teachers

“…Moreover, personal characteristics, skills, and positive influences of the social environment contribute to the building of mental resilience (Gordon & Song, 1994;Rutter 2012;Zucker, 2006). It is often described as a catastrophe, a conflict, or a confrontation, It is also described as an event that disrupts the normal progression of a person's life, resulting in a possible activation of one's resilience mechanisms (Chmitorz et al, 2018;Spyropoulos, 2018).…”