Resilience and human adaptability: who rises above adversity? 1990 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture.

摘要: We work in a world of traumas and triumphs. Most the persons we serve come to us out necessity, struggling with sequelae disease illness or aftermath natural manmade disasters. bring our expertise compassion; they their bodies, minds, compromised lives. Our worlds converge around shared task; identifying enhancing capacities for daily living. pursue problems movement, perception, cognition, affect, social capacity within context roles aspirations. contacts may be extensive, but often are brief only partially fulfilled. patients move on varying degrees functional ability--some determination buoyancy, others little confidence that life is actually worth remain, frequently knowing about factors have influenced outcome efforts. In spite compelling importance patients, professional viability, health care system.