What is Resliency

Resiliency is our ability to "Bounce Back" from stress or emotional injury (this applies to individuals, families, and couples 

Adaptation to Stressful Situations is based on:

• Cognitive Ability
• Temperament
• Personality 
• Coping Skills

External factors:

• Social Support
• Quality of school/environment
• Safety

Resilient people "make sense' of life or trauma

There is flexibility of gender roles

They can

• Stop the Downward Spiral
• Avoid arbitrary Inference
• AVOID: Criticism/Stonewalling/Defensiveness/Contempt