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PSY/225: Positive Psychology•Wk 2 - Resilience Presentation [due Mon]•Submitted on Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 2:50 AMView Originality Report - Old Design

Gbenga Adeogun

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RESILIENCE Adeogun Gbenga

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University of Phoenix

June 15th, 2020

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Introduction

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Concepts of resilience Client experience and interpretation Post traumatic growth Resilience in protecting well being

For the purpose of this assignment is selected a client who is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse to demonstrate the concept of resilience, the client interpreted and overcame the incident via use of mean making, sense making and benefit finding.

This presentation is further going to look at the post traumatic growth of the client and analyze the role of resilience in protecting wellbeing.

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Resilience

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The ability to bounce back from a tragic event (Folke, 2016) An individual with good resilience bounces more quickly Supportive relationships in ones life help increase resilience The process aims at maintaining and reconstructing relationships subjected to trauma

Life has its fair share of challenges that we all face regardless of our different backgrounds.

Traumatic events in life may include death of loved ones, accidents or even serious illnesses that create long lasting impacts on lives of individuals.

Such challenges affect people differently and more so we all respond differently to such situations.

Resilience is what makes t possible to adapt to such adversities we face and bounce.

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An individual with great resilience is able to bounce back much faster than or quicker than an individual with less resilience. Resilience can be increased by having supportive and positive relationships in our lives.

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Client experience

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The client experienced Childhood sexual abuse

The client reveals vague details of the experience

The client doesn’t understand why that happened to her.

The experience affected her socially and she had to withdraw from the society

The client experienced Childhood sexual abuse and describes it as a very dark moment in her life.

The client struggles with understanding why such an incident happened t her and claims the experience affected he social life that she had to withdraw herself from the society and would not want to interact with anyone.

She also claims at times she felt guilty that it was probably her fault but with time she has learnt to accept the events of what happened and that there was nothing she could have done.

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Clients interpretation

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The client feels confused about the incident The client feels angry

The client feels dirty about herself

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The clients is disgusted by the flashback memories of the incident

The client blames the event for her antisocial behavior

The client struggles to make sense of the incident and doesn’t understand why the event happened.

She further claims to have felt dirty after the incident and feels angry about herself for letting it happened.

This is further worsened whenever she gets memories or flashbacks of the event which makes her feel more disgusted.

The client blames the event for her antisocial behavior and believes it has robbed her a part of her life she can never recover and she believes she would have turned out slightly different if it were not for the event.

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Mean making

The client struggles to make sense of the incident

Client has resorted to avoiding reminders of the event

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The client tries to focus on the present and not the past

Mean making involves the process of trying to understand and making sense of a situation or incident that occurred.

The client struggles to make sense of the incident she has accepted that it happened and there is nothing she could have done.

Currently she tries to avoid reminders of the event by trying to focus on the present and not dwell on the past.

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Sense making

The client accepted she cannot control everything especially actions of others

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The client accepted the incident was not her fault The client assigned the blame to the person who abused her

Sense making involves the process where the victim who has gone through a traumatic experience tries to reconcile current experience with previous beliefs.

For this case the client accepted that there are things she cannot control everything especially actions of others and that she was vulnerable as a child and stood no chance.

In order to properly move on the client came to the realization that she was not in anyway to blame for the abuse as she was just a child and has assigned the blame fully on the individual who abused and took advantage of her.

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Benefit finding

The benefits identified by the victim from the trauma includes;

Religious growth

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Increase in knowledge of sexual abuse

Improved relationships

Improved parenting skills (Galatzer-Levy et al., 2018)

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The following are the benefits that the client found during the different adjustment periods of the trauma; Increased knowledge of sexual abuse

Improved parenting skills- the client believes the experience will make her a better parent who will be close to her kids and protect them always to ensure such events don’t happen to them

Religious growth- the experience has pulled the patient close to god and the client believes seeking refuge in the hands of god enabled her to find that peace and accept what happened.

Improved relationships- the client claims the experience made her meet and develop new relationships with fellow women who had gone through such.

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Post traumatic growth

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Post traumatic growth involves the positive personality change after experiencing trauma.

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In analyzing the post traumatic growth of the client we look at the following areas. the client appreciates life and recognizes that the are others who have gone through worse and were still unlucky not to bounce back Building relationships the client found a way to build and strengthen relationship with her family and also successfully managed to get married. Finding new possibilities in life Personal strength

Spiritual change- the client became more religious something he was not before in an attempt to find more inner peace

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Resilience in protecting well being Adapting to adversity Protection from depression

Reducing anxiety

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Regaining balance and stability Quick recovery from mental health problems (Friedberg & Malefakis, 2018)

Resilience is crucial as it helps an individual adapt an adversity and ensures the individual does not suffer from metal health problems and comes out strong in the end.

It is also significant in protecting individuals from going into depression or anxiety and enables an individual to get back to normal or regain stability after having experienced a traumatic event.

According to several studies an individual better resilience is able to recover quickly or adapt better to an adversity as compare to those individuals who lack or have less

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Conclusion

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Case study involves a client who experienced CSA Resilience enables one to bounce back from a tragic event The client demonstrates resilience via mean making sense making and finding benefit from the experience In concluding this presentation resilience is the ability of an individual who has experienced trauma to bounce back from the event. A case of a client who suffered from childhood sexual abuse (CSA) was considered for this study. The client demonstrated resilience by being able to find benefit in from the experience. Resilience is beneficial and plays a crucial role in protecting individuals against some mental health problems and helps in individuals gaining quick recovery from trauma.

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References

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Friedberg, A., & Malefakis, D.

(2018).

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Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 46(1), 81–113.

https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2018.46.1.81

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Galatzer-Levy, I. R., Huang, S. H., & Bonanno, G.

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(2018).

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Trajectories of resilience and dysfunction following potential trauma: A review and statistical evaluation. Clinical Psychology Review, 63, 41–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.05.008

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The Applicability of Resilience Training to the Mitigation of Trauma-Related Mental Illness in Military Personnel. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 24(1), 23–34.

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