Resilience is not the Absence of PTSD any More than Health is the Absence of Disease

Almedom, Astier M.; Glandon, Douglas

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“…Originally developed in response to displaced Eritrean women respondents' suggestions to researchers to ask "better questions" focusing on how they "survived and even thrived against the odds," the studies resulted in the innovative use of an index, the Sense of Coherence (SOC-13) scale, which was modified for use by scoring on a 5-point Likert scale. The SOC-13 was adapted to reflect multilingual Eritrean sensibilities because it was administered in 9 languages (see Almedom et al 2005 andGlandon 2007). As the study findings were published, the pre-existing processes of community organizing on the ground had come to fruition, successfully mobilizing both bonding and bridging types, and cognitive as well as structural forms of social capital with the goal of enabling the internally displaced to return to their homes (see Nayr et al 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This facilitated the process of colearning and knowledge coproduction. The adapted and modified index (SOC-13) became the Sense and Sensibilities of Coherence method, which combined ethnographic qualitative and quantitative techniques of investigation, analysis, and dissemination of results (see Almedom 2004, Almedom et al 2005, Almedom and Glandon 2007, Nayr et al 2011, Parker et al 2013). …”

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Principles of epistemological accountability with methodological implications for measuring, assessing, and profiling human resilience

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Byrne

Jerneck

2015

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ABSTRACT. We propose two fundamental principles of epistemological accountability with critical methodological implications for studies designed to measure, assess, and/or profile human psychosocial resilience. Firstly, researchers involved in human psychosocial resilience studies owe it to the individuals and communities that they engage to disclose their motives and possible misreadings of the situations they enter, albeit with good intentions. Secondly, researchers and those individuals researched need to share a language of colearning and coproduction, and utilization of knowledge that is mutually intelligible. Again, the onus is on researchers and their funders to respect the researched and their particular epistemological sovereignties. As the number of published examples of authentic community-and/or needs-driven research and action to strengthen human psychosocial resilience increases, the sustainability of human social well-being and harmony may also be expected to rise. Psychosocial resilience encompasses a dynamic multidimensional set of personal capabilities as well as social and material assets/resources that individuals, families, and communities mobilize to mentally and emotionally embrace "turbulent" change and transformation while maintaining routine functioning without loss of identity, integrity, or core purpose in life that defines them as who they are individually as well as collectively. These proposed informed predictions are yet to be widely adopted and applied in the new paradigm for advancing this century of human psychosocial resilience, well-being, and sustainability.

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Principles of epistemological accountability with methodological implications for measuring, assessing, and profiling human resilience

Almedom

Byrne

Jerneck

2015

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“…Other interdisciplinary studies have also emphasized the importance of understanding human resilience, not in terms of self-contained individuals but by emphasis on the context, suggesting that human resilience indeed can be constructed in terms of relationships between human subjects and contextual factors, i.e., an approach rooted in the complexity principles introduced (Almedom 2004, Almedom and Glandon 2007, Hamiel et al 2013. This seems to be the result of the introduction of the human ecological theory into resilience studies, typically focusing on the interactions between individuals and their environment (Kolar 2011).…”

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Bridging the Macro and the Micro by Considering the Meso: Reflections on the Fractal Nature of Resilience

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Dekker²

2014

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ABSTRACT. We pursued the following three interconnected points: (1) there are unexplored opportunities for resilience scholars from different disciplines to cross-inspire and inform, (2) a systems perspective may enhance understanding of human resilience in health and social settings, and (3) resilience is often considered to be fractal, i.e., a phenomenon with recognizable or recurring features at a variety of scales. Following a consideration of resilience from a systems perspective, we explain how resilience can, for analytic purposes, be constructed at four scales: micro, meso, macro, and cross-scale. Adding to the cross-scale perspective of the social-ecological field, we have suggested an analytical framework for resilience studies of the health field, which incorporates holism and complexity by embracing an ecological model of cognition, something supported by empirical studies of organizations in crisis situations at various spatial as well as temporal scales.

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“…Becker et al 2011;Cimellaro et al 2013;Gibbs et al 2013;Hamiel et al 2013;McDaniels et al 2008;O'Sullivan et al 2013;Walker, Cooper 2011) and • cross-scale resilience (cf. Almedom, Glandon 2007;Berkes 2006;Jerneck, Olsson 2008;Kulig et al 2008;Wilson 2012).…”

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Organisational resilience: building business value in a changing world

Quendler

2017

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Resilience is not the Absence of PTSD any More than Health is the Absence of Disease

Cited by 149 publications

References 24 publications

Principles of epistemological accountability with methodological implications for measuring, assessing, and profiling human resilience

Principles of epistemological accountability with methodological implications for measuring, assessing, and profiling human resilience

Bridging the Macro and the Micro by Considering the Meso: Reflections on the Fractal Nature of Resilience

Organisational resilience: building business value in a changing world

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