Hostname: page-component-77f85d65b8-zzw9c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-03-28T06:46:57.346Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Resilience: The role of accurate appraisal, thresholds, and socioenvironmental factors1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2015

Steven M. Southwick ,
Robert H. Pietrzak ,
Dennis S. Charney  and
John H. Krystal
Steven M. Southwick
Affiliation:
Clinical Neurosciences Division, National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT 06516 rhpietrzak@gmail.com Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511 steven.southwick@yale.edu john.krystal@yale.edu Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511 Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029. dennis.charney@mssm.edu
Robert H. Pietrzak
Affiliation:
Clinical Neurosciences Division, National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT 06516 rhpietrzak@gmail.com Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511 steven.southwick@yale.edu john.krystal@yale.edu
Dennis S. Charney
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029. dennis.charney@mssm.edu
John H. Krystal
Affiliation:
Clinical Neurosciences Division, National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT 06516 rhpietrzak@gmail.com Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511 steven.southwick@yale.edu john.krystal@yale.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Adding to the resilience model of Kalisch and colleagues, we suggest that resilience is associated with accurate rather than excessively positive or negative appraisal or reappraisal styles; that complex systems do not always change in linear fashion; that linkages of individuals, families, and communities markedly affect individual resilience; and that resilience research focus on specific factors or mechanisms as well as more global ones.

Information

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e122
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

Footnotes

1.

Parts of this commentary were written as an employee of the U.S. Government and such parts are not subject to copyright protection in the United States.

References

Dietrich, M. O. & Horvath, T. L. (2011) Synaptic plasticity of feeding circuits: Hormones and hysteresis. Cell 146(6):863–65.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Dutilh, G., Wagenmakers, E. J., Visser, I. & van der Maas, H. L. (2011) A phase transition model for the speed-accuracy trade-off in response time experiments. Cognitive Science 35(2):211–50.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fung, T., Seymour, R. M. & Johnson, C. R. (2011) Alternative stable states and phase shifts in coral reefs under anthropogenic stress. Ecology 92(4):967–82.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Krystal, H. (1978) Trauma and affects. Psychoanalytical Study Child 33:81–116.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Masten, A. S. (2014) Global perspectives on resilience in children and youth. Child Development 85(1):6–20.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Salas, E., Priest, H. A., Wilson, K. A. & Burke, C. S. (2006) Scenario-based training: Improving military mission performance and adaptability. In: Military life: The psychology of serving in peace and combat. Vol. 2: Operational stress, ed. Adler, A. B., Castro, C. A. & Britt, T. W., pp. 32–53. Praeger Security International.Google Scholar
Schneider, S. L. (2001) In search of realistic optimism: Meaning, knowledge, and warm fuzziness. American Psychologist 56(3):250–63.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Southwick, S. M. & Charney, D. S. (2012) The science of resilience: Implications for the prevention and treatment of depression. Science 338(6103):79–82.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Walker, B. & Salt, D., eds. (2006) Resilience thinking: Sustaining ecosystems and people in a changing world. Island Press.Google Scholar