Patients' resilience and distress over time: Is resilience a prognostic indicator of treatment?

Resilience is a positive adaptation or the ability to maintain mental health despite experiencing difficulty. Many researchers are linking resilience with many aspects of life, most often with better mental health. Resilience can affect health status and symptoms, but conversely, it can also be affected by health status or symptoms. From the literature it appears that resilience can even be a predictor of psychiatric symptoms. Resilience can predict severity of symptoms, but the question is whether symptoms can also affect resilience over time when previous levels of resilience are controlled for.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - May 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Vilmantė Pakalniškienė, Rima Viliūnienė, Jan Hilbig Source Type: research