I’ve been writing about the three waves of resilience research identified by Glenn Richardson. Now let’s look at the second wave in more depth: the process of resilience. Richardson wrote that, “the second wave of resiliency inquiry was an attempt to answer the question, How are the resilient qualities acquired?” He proposed that the process of resilience was based on choice, conscious or unconscious. This process might be fast, slow, or postponed. And this process might apply to individuals, groups, or even communities.
The key thing about Wave Two is that resilience was recognized as a process, not a single event. Therefore, theories about resilience built upon developmental theories like Piaget’s theory of intelligence, Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, and Erikson’s psychosocial theory.
A model to help visualize this process would be helpful, so I’ll post about that next.
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Richardson, G. E.(2002). The metatheory of resilience and resiliency. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, 307-321.
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