Resilience Factors

Resilience Factors

Resilience: A person’s ability to bounce back from adversity, trauma, or stress, and to adapt positively to difficult circumstances.

Protective Factors: Characteristics or conditions that lessen the negative effects of adverse experiences and promote resilience.

These factors provide a type of safety net against the harmful effects of adverse childhood experiences which can allow a person a larger perspective of their situation and so enables them to navigate the challenges better.

These questions were developed by several early childhood service providers including pediatricians, psychologists and other child health advocates based on many research studies over the years to identify possible supportive factors amidst adverse childhood experiences.

The Questions:

• I believe that my mother loved me when I was little.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• I believe that my father loved me when I was little.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• When I was little, other people helped my mother and father take care of me and they seemed to love me.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• I’ve heard that when I was an infant someone in my family enjoyed playing with me, and I enjoyed it, too.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• When I was a child, there were relatives in my family who made me feel better if I was sad or worried.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• When I was a child, neighbors or my friends’ parents seemed to like me.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• My family, neighbors and friends talked often about making our lives better.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• We had rules in our house and were expected to keep them.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• When I felt really bad, I could almost always find someone I trusted to talk to.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• As a youth, people noticed that I was capable and could get things done.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• When I was a child, teachers, coaches, youth leaders or ministers were there to help me.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• Someone in my family cared about how I was doing in school.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• I was independent and a go-getter.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

• I believed that life is what you make it.

Definitely true | Probably true | Not sure | Probably Not True | Definitely Not True

The number of protective factors you identified, and the strength of those protective factors, would likely affect your susceptibility to the stress and trauma of adverse childhood experiences and therefore your vulnerability to developing C-PTSD.

A very subtle and difficult-to-identify part of C-PTSD is:

Emotional Neglect

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INSPIRATION

  • "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

    — Maya Angelou

  • "It's never too late to be what you might have been."

    — George Eliot

  • “Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

    — Carl Jung

  • "The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a conincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people."

    — Carl Jung

  • "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

    — Thomas A. Edison

  • "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

    — George Bernard Shaw

  • "There's a power in words. There's power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

    — Tracy Chapman

  • "I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am."

    — Tracy Chapman

  • "The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified."

    — Sinead O’Connor

  • "Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."

    — Criss Jami

  • "To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment."

    — Eckart Tolle

  • "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity."

    — Thomas J. Watson

  • "I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years."

    — Haruki Murakami

  • "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

    — Aristotle

  • "[A person's] greatness lies in [their] power of thought."

    — Blaise Pascal

  • "In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

    — Eleanor Roosevelt

  • "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

    — David Hume

  • "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

    — F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • "Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be."

    — Thoreau

  • ""To find yourself, think for yourself."

    — Socrates

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  • "The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

    — Albert Einstein

  • "The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

    — Christoper Hitchens

  • "We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become 'unthinkable,' thinking stops and action becomes mindless."

    — J. William Fulbright

  • "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

    — Marie Curie

  • "Obstacles, of course are developmentally necessary: they teach [people] strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience, and resourcefulness."

    — Naomi Wolf

  • "We will fail when we fail to try."

    — Rosa Parks

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