Mental health promotion through resilience and resiliency education.

Abstract

The article provides a brief review of the metatheory of resilience and resiliency, a description of a resiliency training program, and also a summary of results of a resiliency training program. Resilience in this paper is a self-righting force within everyone that drives him/her to pursue self actualization, altruism, wisdom, and harmony with a spiritual source of strength. The resiliency process is the experience of being disrupted by change, opportunities, adversity, stressors or challenges and, after some disorder, accessing personal gifts and strengths to grow stronger through the disruption. The resiliency training program is presented as a five-day progressive program that provides experiences for participants to enhance personal resilience and to pursue resilient relationships. Research previously conducted in a large government organization showed immediate and posttest improvements in resilience, locus of control, purpose in life, self-esteem, interpersonal relationships, and job satisfaction.