CRM 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Positive Illusions, Posttraumatic Growth, Learned Helplessness

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3306
• Professor: Adina Ilea

Document Summary

Resilience and recovery: resilience: a person"s ability to maintain a balanced state in the face of challenges, recovery: the ability to bounce back after being traumatized. It means to handle the problems encountered after the event and meeting the challenges that come up; proper coping methods. Ways to build resiliency: refrain from seeing crises as overwhelming problems, accept that change is part of life, find opportunities for self-discovery, take care of oneself. Questioning post-traumatic growth: perceived growth vs. actual growth, studies did not do a good job of differentiating between these two concepts, most studies conflate the two, perceived growth = motivated positive illusion, perceived growth worse functioning. Allowing people the time to grieve: everything does not happen for a reason, grieving the loss. Building resilience: resilience building from birth, community effort, government funding for structural supports that can actually increase reliance from the beginning.