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Resilience, Suffering and Creativity: The Work of the Refugee Therapy Centre
by Aida AlayarianThe trauma of refugee status is particularly corrosive. It does the usual harm of devastating our own self-image and sense of permanence in the world, but it does more. It is a dislocation from our familiar domestic geography and culture, and that must wrench from our grasp all the external markers by which we know ourselves and our worth. The threat of persecution, torture, and death is aimed at a complete destabilization. The result is a complex of anxieties that add up to far more than simple suffering. If therapy is primarily aimed at the gentle exposure of one's worst fears, then what purchase can it have on this most ungentle process of becoming a refugee?
Resilience: How We Find New Strength At Times of Stress (A\self-help Classic Ser.)
by Frederic FlachLearn to bounce back from life's inevitable crises by making friends with stress.There's no escaping stress. It appears on our doorstep uninvited in the shattering forms of death and divorce, or even in the pleasant experiences of promotion, marriage, or a long-held wish fulfilled. Anything that upsets the delicate balance of our daily lives creates stress. So why do some people come out of a crisis while others never seem quite themselves again? Now, Dr. Frederic Flach takes the anxiety out of hard times by showing you how to embrace you fears and become stronger because of them. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Flach reveals the remarkable antidote to the destructive qualities of stress: RESILIENCE.
Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past
by Boris CyrulnikOne out of every two people will experience trauma, says psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, and one in ten will remain a prisoner of that suffering. Why are some children permanently damaged by difficult childhoods, while others grow up into secure, creative, loving adults? This book, based on Dr. Cyrulnik's broad experience with victims of childhood distress, offers a message of hope for everyone concerned about the impact of deprivation and such traumatic events as separation, emotional or sexual abuse, and violence in the environment. The ghosts of the past keep on whispering to the child within the adult. Through dozens of moving, vivid examples, Dr. Cyrulnik describes the ingredients of resilience, the ability to heal the wounded self and move on, to make sense of what happened back then and form new emotional and social ties. Affection is such a vital need, he writes, that those who were deprived of it will attach themselves intensely to anything that rekindles a spark of life, whatever the cost. From the earliest parent-child bonding to the sexual turbulence of the teenage years, this book shows what makes for success or failure in the struggle to gain freedom from early pain.
Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster
by Linda GrahamWhether it&’s a critical comment from the boss or a full-blown catastrophe, life continually dishes out challenges. Resilience is the learned capacity to cope with any level of adversity, from the small annoyances of daily life to the struggles and sorrows that break our hearts. Resilience is essential for surviving and thriving in a world full of troubles and tragedies, and it is completely trainable and recoverable — when we know how. In Resilience, Linda Graham offers clear guidance to help you develop somatic, emotional, relational, and reflective intelligence — the skills you need to confidently and effectively cope with life&’s inevitable challenges and crises.
Resilience: The Science Of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges
by Dennis S. Charney Steven M. SouthwickMany of us will be struck by one or more major traumas sometime in our lives. Perhaps you have been a victim of sexual abuse, domestic violence or assault. Perhaps you were involved in a serious car accident. Perhaps you are a combat veteran. Maybe you were on the beach in Thailand during a tsunami, or in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Or maybe, you are among the millions who have suffered a debilitating disease, lost a loved one or lost your job. <P><P>This inspiring book identifies ten key ways to weather and bounce back from stress and trauma. <P>Incorporating the latest scientific research and dozens of interviews with trauma survivors, it provides a practical guide to building emotional, mental and physical resilience. Written by experts in post-traumatic stress, this book provides a vital and successful roadmap for overcoming the adversities we all face at some point in our lives.<P> Covers ten key resilience factors, optimism, moral compass, role models, religion and physical training, bringing hope and inspiration for overcoming adversity.<P> First-person interviews with trauma survivors enable learning from real-life examples of how to face your fears, gain strength and grow as a result of difficult experiences.<P> Provides recommendations for building resilience based on sound scientific knowledge.
Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges
by Dennis S. Charney Steven M. Southwick Jonathan M. DePierroLife presents us all with challenges. Most of us at some point will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, or a natural disaster. What differentiates us is how we respond. In this important book, three experts in trauma and resilience answer key questions such as What helps people adapt to life's most challenging situations?, How can you build up your own resilience?, and What do we know about the science of resilience? Combining cutting-edge scientific research with the personal experiences of individuals who have survived some of the most traumatic events imaginable, including the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides a practical resource that can be used time and time again. The experts describe ten key resilience factors, including facing fear, optimism, and relying on role models, through the experiences and personal reflections of highly resilient survivors. Each resilience factor will help you to adapt and grow from stressful life events and will bring hope and inspiration for overcoming adversity.
Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
by Pete Earley Glenn Close Jessie CloseAt a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament cult. Jessie passed her childhood in New York, Switzerland, Connecticut, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and finally Los Angeles, where her life quickly became unmanageable. She was just fifteen years old.Jessie's emerging mental illness led her into a life of addictions, five failed marriages, and to the brink of suicide. She fought to raise her children despite her ever worsening mental conditions and under the strain of damaged romantic relationships. Her sister Glenn and certain members of their family tried to be supportive throughout the ups and downs, and Glenn's vignettes in RESILIENCE provide an alternate perspective on Jessie's life as it began to spiral out of control. Jessie was devastated to discover that mental illness was passed on to her son Calen, but getting him help at long last helped Jessie to heal as well. Eleven years later, Jessie is a productive member of society and a supportive daughter, mother, sister, and grandmother. In RESILIENCE, Jessie dives into the dark and dangerous shadows of mental illness without shying away from its horror and turmoil. With New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Pete Earley, she tells of finally discovering the treatment she needs and, with the encouragement of her sister and others, the emotional fortitude to bring herself back from the edge.
Resilient Children: Nurturing Positivity and Well-Being Across Development (Springer Series on Child and Family Studies)
by Laura NaborsThis book examines resilience in childhood, focusing on positive functioning and development, often in the face of everyday difficulties and adversities. It highlights critical areas in which children and their families can demonstrate resilience and attain positive social, emotional, academic, and behavioral life trajectories. The book describes key factors related to enhancing resilience for children, such as positive relationships with adults, positive school environments, and meaningful connections with others. It provides practical guidelines for promoting resilience in youth and reviews the critical nature of resilience across various situations, critical issues, and different developmental periods. It offers guidance on strategies for fostering resilience in children.Key topics featured include:Raising children to have grit and tenacity.Fostering resilience in children at school and within their families.Nurturing resilience in children with chronic illnesses and posttrauma.Resilient Children is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental, clinical, and school psychology, family studies, public health, and social work as well as all related disciplines, including educational psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and pediatrics.
Resilient Controls for Ordering Uncertain Prospects
by Khanh D. PhamProviding readers with a detailed examination of resilient controls in risk-averse decision, this monograph is aimed toward researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics and electrical engineering with a systems-theoretic concentration. This work contains a timely and responsive evaluation of reforms on the use of asymmetry or skewness pertaining to the restrictive family of quadratic costs that have been appeared in various scholarly forums. Additionally, the book includes a discussion of the current and ongoing efforts in the usage of risk, dynamic game decision optimization and disturbance mitigation techniques with output feedback measurements tailored toward the worst-case scenarios. This work encompasses some of the current changes across uncertainty quantification, stochastic control communities, and the creative efforts that are being made to increase the understanding of resilient controls. Specific considerations are made in this book for the application of decision theory to resilient controls of the linear-quadratic class of stochastic dynamical systems. Each of these topics are examined explicitly in several chapters. This monograph also puts forward initiatives to reform both control decisions with risk consequences and correct-by-design paradigms for performance reliability associated with the class of stochastic linear dynamical systems with integral quadratic costs and subject to network delays, control and communication constraints.
Resilient Grandparent Caregivers: A Strengths-Based Perspective
by Jr. Bert Hayslip Gregory C. SmithThe study of grandparents raising grandchildren, now almost two decades old, has tended to have a negative bias, emphasizing the difficulties such people face and the negative impact that grandparent caregiving has on them physically, socially, and emotionally. This edited book seeks to reverse this trend by taking a positive approach to understanding grandparent caregivers, focusing on their resilience and resourcefulness. This method reflects a strengths-based approach and the importance of benefit-finding and positive coping. Chapters feature information from both qualitative and quantitative studies and are written by a diverse range of professionals, such as counselors, psychologists, geriatric social workers, and nurse practitioners, to provide multidisciplinary persepctives for practitioners working with grandparent caregivers. Part one discusses the positive qualities that custodial grandparents possess – resilience, resourcefulness, and benefit finding. The second part considers the sociocultural aspects of resilience and resourcefulness in grandparent caregivers. Finally, part three presents strengths-based interventions for working with custodial grandparents. Practitioners will find this to be a valuable resource in their work and the field as a whole, stimulating positive changes in attitudes toward and practices with grandparent caregivers.
Resilient Grieving, Second Edition (Second Edition): How To Find Your Way Through A Devastating Loss
by Lucy HoneThe loss of someone you hold dear may be beyond your control; being paralyzed by grief is not. In 2014, Dr. Lucy Hone, the trailblazer in the field of Resilient Grieving, was faced with her own inescapable sorrow after her twelve-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. By developing—and following—the strategies of Resilient Grieving shared here, she found a proactive way to manage her grief, embrace life again, and discover profound meaning. In this completely updated and expanded second edition, she continues to shift the narrative on how to grieve. With new scientific evidence, Dr. Hone demonstrates the inadequacy and potential harm of Kübler-Ross’s Five Stages model of grief. In its place, Dr. Hone shares the best of contemporary grief advice—offering tools to handle emotions, manage relationships, and get the support you need—replacing helplessness with hope and a sense of control. Here, also, are all-new, practical insights into how to keep your loved one’s memory alive. Dr. Hone has never been more convinced that the tools of Resilient Grieving can transform the ways that readers approach grief, helping them draw on their innate ability to cope with loss and become active participants in their grief journey—and, in time, get back to living happy, healthy, meaningful lives, just as she has done.
Resilient Grieving: How To Find Your Way Through A Devastating Loss
by Lucy HoneResilient Grieving offers an empowering alternative to the five stages of grief—and makes clear our capacity for growth following the trauma of a loss that changes everything As heard on NPR’s Hidden Brain and CBS News The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. Recent research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow—by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering new, profound meaning. Author and resilience/well-being expert Lucy Hone, a pioneer in positive psychology and bereavement research, was faced with her own inescapable sorrow when, in 2014, her 12-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. By following the strategies of resilient grieving, she found a proactive way to move through her grief, and, over time, embrace life again. “This book aims to help you relearn your world . . . to help you navigate the grieving process as best you can—without hiding from your feelings or denying the reality, or significance, of your loss.”—from Resilient Grieving
Resilient Health Care, Volume 2: The Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work (Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering)
by Robert L. Wears Erik HollnagelHealth systems everywhere are expected to meet increasing public and political demands for accessible, high-quality care. Policy-makers, managers, and clinicians use their best efforts to improve efficiency, safety, quality, and economic viability. One solution has been to mimic approaches that have been shown to work in other domains, such as quality management, lean production, and high reliability. In the enthusiasm for such solutions, scant attention has been paid to the fact that health care as a multifaceted system differs significantly from most traditional industries. Solutions based on linear thinking in engineered systems do not work well in complicated, multi-stakeholder non-engineered systems, of which health care is a leading example. A prerequisite for improving health care and making it more resilient is that the nature of everyday clinical work be well understood. Yet the focus of the majority of policy or management solutions, as well as that of accreditation and regulation, is work as it ought to be (also known as ’work-as-imagined’). The aim of policy-makers and managers, whether the priority is safety, quality, or efficiency, is therefore to make everyday clinical work - or work-as-done - comply with work-as-imagined. This fails to recognise that this normative conception of work is often oversimplified, incomplete, and outdated. There is therefore an urgent need to better understand everyday clinical work as it is done. Despite the common focus on deviations and failures, it is undeniable that clinical work goes right far more often than it goes wrong, and that we only can make it better if we understand how this happens. This second volume of Resilient Health Care continues the line of thinking of the first book, but takes it further through a range of chapters from leading international thinkers on resilience and health care. Where the first book provided the rationale and basic concepts of RHC, the Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work b
Resilient Health Care: The Resilience Of Everyday Clinical Work (Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering)
by Jeffrey Braithwaite Erik HollnagelHealth care is everywhere under tremendous pressure with regard to efficiency, safety, and economic viability - to say nothing of having to meet various political agendas - and has responded by eagerly adopting techniques that have been useful in other industries, such as quality management, lean production, and high reliability. This has on the whole been met with limited success because health care as a non-trivial and multifaceted system differs significantly from most traditional industries. In order to allow health care systems to perform as expected and required, it is necessary to have concepts and methods that are able to cope with this complexity. Resilience engineering provides that capacity because its focus is on a system’s overall ability to sustain required operations under both expected and unexpected conditions rather than on individual features or qualities. Resilience engineering’s unique approach emphasises the usefulness of performance variability, and that successes and failures have the same aetiology. This book contains contributions from acknowledged international experts in health care, organisational studies and patient safety, as well as resilience engineering. Whereas current safety approaches primarily aim to reduce or eliminate the number of things that go wrong, Resilient Health Care aims to increase and improve the number of things that go right. Just as the WHO argues that health is more than the absence of illness, so does Resilient Health Care argue that safety is more than the absence of risk and accidents. This can be achieved by making use of the concrete experiences of resilience engineering, both conceptually (ways of thinking) and practically (ways of acting).
Resilient Playgrounds (School-Based Practice in Action)
by Beth Doll Katherine BrehmWhile recess provides children with a time to play and take a break from the school day, research has shown that it is also a necessary and vital part of their social, emotional, and academic development. This book provides tools and strategies for school mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators to evaluate and improve the recess experience in order to ensure that children benefit as much as possible from this important time. Using a data-based problem solving strategy, the author presents methods for assessing playgrounds, identifying features that may negatively impact students and their social interactions, intervening to modify and strengthen these features, and monitoring to guarantee that the interventions have created successful outcomes. An accompanying CD contains forms, examples, PowerPoint presentations, and other resources to support the procedures discussed throughout the book.
Resilient Relationships: Techniques for Surviving Hyper-individualism, Social Isolation, and a Mental Health Crisis
by Caroline Heim Christian HeimDesigned to be used as a companion to couple therapy, this book is based on a trailblazing study of over 1400 individuals. It presents over 75 techniques to help relationships thrive in the long-term and provides insights into the challenges faced by contemporary couples. Through in-depth interviews, this book takes pertinent questions from young couples and puts them to couples who have been together for decades. The time-tested secrets of thriving couples are presented in a new guise for a new generation. Capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the study includes people from 52 countries and is the largest cross-sectional, multi-national study on long-term relationships to date. It highlights the dynamic and protective factors that lead to relationship longevity, as well as societal pressures, to guide therapists on how to manage these with their clients. The authors uncover how long-term relationships promote resilience, emotional, mental, and physical health, and protect against loneliness and harmful behaviours. Therapists and couples need to know what goes right in long-lasting relationships. Providing essential data and practical skills for psychologists, counsellors and other professionals, this book is a must-read for anyone working with couples to explore and understand what leads to resilient relationships in a harsh, complex world.
Resilient Therapy: Working with Children and Families
by Helen Thomas Angie Hart Derek BlincowWhilst much has been written about the identification of resilience in children and their families, comparatively little has been written about what practitioners can do to support those children and families who need the most pressing help. Resilient Therapy explores a new therapeutic methodology designed to help children and young people find ways to keep positive when living amidst persistent disadvantage. Using detailed case material from a range of contexts, the authors illustrate how resilient mechanisms work in complex situations, and how resilient therapy works in real-life situations. In addition to work with families, helping welfare organisations achieve greater resilience is also tackled. This book will be essential reading for practitioners working with children, adolescents and their families who wish to help their clients cope with adversity and promote resilience.
Resilient Warriors: The Resilience Trilogy
by Robert F. DeesResilient Warriors Given the “body slams” which afflict all of us at times, how do we prepare for the storms of life, how do we weather those storms, and how do we then bounce back without getting stuck in the toxic emotions of guilt, false guilt, anger, and bitterness? Resilient Warriors is written in military metaphor but applies to all of us, whether a business executive, a military professional, a young mom with three in diapers, or anyone else on the battlefield of life. Taking a holistic approach to include full integration of Biblical truth, General Dees has provided an essential guide for individual resilience, a critical life skill. This book is complemented by the Resilient Warriors Advanced Study Guide, allowing readers to personalize and apply what they read to their own life situations. Resilient Leaders Leadership is a contact sport! As an experienced military, business, ministry, academic, and political leader, General Dees explains how leaders can selflessly serve over time from a platform of character and competence. In addition to unique, Biblically-based discussions regarding key leader characteristics, key leader competencies, and the wisdom of the leader, Resilient Leaders includes an invaluable section on leader self-care. This book provides a unique window into how leaders lead well, stay resilient, and help the organizations and individuals they lead do the same. Resilient Nations God Himself breathed life into the soul and spirit of America. While there are many infrastructures that undergird our nation (economic, military, energy, transportation, etc.), the most critical one of all is our spiritual infrastructure which is also an “element of national power” and the unseen glue that makes America the most exceptional nation on earth. Resilient Nations identifies the ingredients which comprise spiritual infrastructure as it relates to national resilience, and assesses this from the founding of America to our current state of moral decay. Taking a deeper dive into Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; Resilient Nations then provides mandates for We The People, We The Church, and We The Statesmen. As a closing challenge, General Dees asks, “If not now, then when? If not us, then who?”
Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
by Rick Hanson Forrest HansonThese days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every day to raise a family, work at a job, cope with stress, deal with health problems, navigate issues with others, heal from old pain, and simply keep on going. With his trademark blend of neuroscience, mindfulness, and positive psychology, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Rick Hanson shows you how to develop twelve vital inner strengths hardwired into your own nervous system. Then no matter what life throws at you, you’ll be able to feel less stressed, pursue opportunities with confidence, and stay calm and centered in the face of adversity. This practical guide is full of concrete suggestions, experiential practices, personal examples, and insights into the brain. It includes effective ways to interact with others and to repair and deepen important relationships. Warm, encouraging, and down-to-earth, Dr. Hanson’s step-by-step approach is grounded in the science of positive neuroplasticity. He explains how to overcome the brain’s negativity bias, release painful thoughts and feelings, and replace them with self-compassion, self-worth, joy, and inner peace.
Resilienz als Prozess: Beiträge zu einer Soziologie von Resilienz
by Martin Endreß Benjamin RamppDas Konzept „Resilienz“ erfährt seit einigen Jahren in der Soziologie eine bemerkenswerte Resonanz. Es scheint für die Sozialwissenschaften allgemein und die Soziologie im Besonderen eine interessante und vielversprechende neue Zugangsweise zu zentralen gesellschaftlichen Themen und Handlungsfeldern zu bieten. Die Beiträge des Bandes loten die Transformationserfordernisse für eine Übertragung des Resilienzansatzes aus und konturieren exemplarisch die sich daraus ergebenden Potentiale für die soziologische und sozio-historische Forschung in theoretisch-konzeptionellen Beiträgen und im Rahmen von empirischen Fallstudien. Das übergeordnete Analyseinteresse liegt dabei auf nichtlinearen sozio-historischen Mehrebenenprozessen, die durch eine enge Verknüpfung von Phänomenen der Kontinuität und der Diskontinuität charakterisiert sind.
Resilienz bis ins hohe Alter - was wir von Johann Sebastian Bach lernen können: Für alle Interessierten (essentials)
by Andreas KruseDie Biografie Johann Sebastian Bachs wird unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Resilienz betrachtet: Wie ist es dem großen Komponisten gelungen, trotz zahlreicher Verluste, Rückschläge und Grenzsituationen sein außerordentliches schöpferisches Potenzial zu entfalten? Inwieweit sind Bezüge zwischen der Entwicklung in verschiedenen Lebensabschnitten und einzelnen Werken erkennbar? Lässt sich das Leben Bachs selbst als ,,Werk" interpretieren? Nach einem Überblick über psychologische Resilienzforschung werden der frühe Verlust seiner Eltern, der Tod seiner ersten Frau und die von gesundheitlichen Einschränkungen und dem Verlust der Sehfähigkeit geprägte letzte Lebensphase Johann Sebastian Bachs untersucht. Dabei wird deutlich, dass es ihm bis ans Ende seines Lebens gelungen ist, sein schöpferisches Potenzial in seinem Werk wie auch in seiner Lebensführung zu verwirklichen, wobei seiner religiösen Bindung besondere Bedeutung zukommt.
Resilienz für Dummies
by Eva KalbheimDie innere Stärke eines Menschen hilft ihm, mit widrigen Umständen gut fertig zu werden. Wenn Sie aufmerksam in sich hineinhorchen, werden Sie immer wieder zu Ihren Ressourcen zurückfinden, auch wenn Sie unter Druck stehen oder sich gestresst fühlen. Die Autorin erläutert, dass Resilienz ein Faktor ist, der in der Kindheit angelegt wird, aber auch im Erwachsenenalter gefördert werden kann. Sich auf seine innere Stärke zu konzentrieren und Kinder so zu erziehen, dass sie resilient durchs Leben gehen, kann man lernen: Anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen aus verschiedenen Lebenslagen und einfach durchzuführenden Übungen zeigt die Autorin, wie Sie Ihre innere Stärke kennenlernen und festigen. Schwierige Situationen, Rückschläge, Misserfolge, Krisen und Katastrophen können so besser gemeistert werden.
Resilienz für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Eva KalbheimResilienz kann man lernen! Lassen Sie sich von Dr. Eva Kalbheim zeigen, wie Sie mithilfe von innerer Stärke und seelischer Widerstandskraft gelassener und souveräner mit belastenden Lebensumständen umgehen. Resilienz hilft Ihnen, immer wieder zu Ihren Ressourcen zurückzufinden, auch wenn Sie unter Druck stehen oder sich gestresst fühlen. Anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen aus verschiedenen Lebenslagen und einfach durchzuführenden Übungen zeigt die Autorin, wie Sie Ihre innere Stärke kennenlernen und festigen und so schwierige Situationen, Misserfolge und Krisen besser meistern.
Resilienz für die VUCA-Welt: Individuelle und organisationale Resilienz entwickeln
by Jutta HellerVUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) bestimmt unsere Umwelt, im privaten wie im Unternehmenskontext. Krisen stehen auf der Tagesordnung, so dass Krisenantizipation,Anpassung, Regeneration von und Lernen aus der Krise immer wichtiger für eine erfolgreiche Lebens- und Arbeitsgestaltung werden. Diese Krisenkompetenz heißt Resilienz. Coachs, Führungskräfte und UnternehmerInnen erhalten in diesem Sammelband einen umfassenden Überblick über die Herangehensweisen an Resilienz. Denn Resilienz ist einerseits die Fähigkeit, flexibel mit Krisen und Dauerbelastung umzugehen. Andererseits ermöglicht Resilienz aber auch, sensibel auf Warnzeichen für künftige Krisen zu reagieren sowie nach der Krise schneller wieder handlungsfähig zu werden. Resilienz ist für Individuen und Organisationen gleichermaßen eine wichtige Fähigkeit geworden.
Resilienz im Spannungsfeld zwischen Entwicklung und Nachhaltigkeit: Anforderungen an gesellschaftliche Zukunftssicherung im 21. Jahrhundert
by Karim FathiDas Buch, bewusst in allgemeinverständlicher Sprache für alle interessierten Leserinnen und Leser geschrieben, zeichnet ein einmaliges, transdisziplinäres Gesamtbild von Resilienz als nationalem und internationalem Gesellschaftsfaktor unserer Zeit. Es zeigt, dass der Resilienzbegriff an gesellschaftspolitischer Bedeutung den älteren, bislang dominierenden Konzepten der Nachhaltigkeit und Entwicklung in nichts nachsteht, ja diese aktiv ergänzt, teilweise widerspricht, aber auch vervollständigt. Resilienz als Gesellschaftsfaktor bezieht alle Sektoren, wie z. B. die Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft, mit ein und stellt damit einen unverzichtbaren Referenzrahmen in der übergeordneten neueren Debatte um die „lernende Gesellschaft“ dar.„Fathi analysiert das noch wenig erschlossene Thema der "gesellschaftlichen Resilienz" aus völlig neuen Perspektiven und in einer anregenden thematischen Breite. Ein Muss für jeden, der dieses Thema ganzheitlich erfassen will.“ Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind