What Individuals can do: Strengthening the Four Personal Resilience Resources

Abstract

The relevance of the two broad approaches (the cognitive approach and increasing positive emotions) that we described in the previous chapter will be briefly highlighted at appropriate points during the following discussion on developing the four components of resilience (the personal resilience resources), but we will not repeat the detailed accounts already provided. It should also be pointed out that, as implied by the overlapping circles in Figure 5.1, the specific techniques we discuss below may apply to more than one of the four components.