Resilience and mental health : how multisystemic processes contribute to positive outcomes

dc.contributor.authorUngar, Michael
dc.contributor.authorTheron, Linda C.
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-14T10:18:34Z
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.description.abstractMore is known about the factors that predict mental disorder than about the factors and processes that promote positive development among individuals exposed to atypically high levels of stress or adversity. In this brief Review of the science of resilience, we show that the concept is best understood as the process of multiple biological, psychological, social, and ecological systems interacting in ways that help individuals to regain, sustain, or improve their mental wellbeing when challenged by one or more risk factors. Studies in fields as diverse as genetics, psychology, political science, architecture, and human ecology are showing that resilience depends just as much on the culturally relevant resources available to stressed individuals in their social, built, and natural environments as it does on individual thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. With growing interest in resilience among mental health-care providers, there is a need to recognise the complex interactions across systems that predict which individuals will do well and to use this insight to advance mental health interventions.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentEducational Psychologyen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2021-05-01
dc.description.librarianhj2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.thelancet.com/psychiatryen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationUngar, M. & Theron, L. 2020, 'Resilience and mental health : how multisystemic processes contribute to positive outcomes', Lancet Psychiatry, vol. 7, no 5, pp. 441-448.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2215-0366 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2215-0374 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30434-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/78020
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherElsevieren_ZA
dc.rights© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Lancet Psychiatry. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. A definitive version was subsequently published in Lancet Psychiatry, vol. 7, no 5, pp. 441-448, 2020. doi : 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30434-1.en_ZA
dc.subjectPositive developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectResilienceen_ZA
dc.subjectMental healthen_ZA
dc.titleResilience and mental health : how multisystemic processes contribute to positive outcomesen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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