Developing resilience or challenging harm?

Comprehensive soldier fitness: building resilience in a challenging institutional context.

The Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program is designed to increase psychological strength and positive performance and to reduce the incidence of maladaptive responses of the entire U.S. Army. Based on the principles of positive psychology, CSF is a historically unique approach to behavioral health in a large (1.1 million members) organization. There are four program elements: (a) the asse...

Caring Relationships: How to Promote Resilience in Challenging Times

This chapter examines the potential for resilience within the context of caring relationships, mainly from the perspective of the adult carer. They may be caring for children, spouses or parents with a range of complex problems, such as health or behavioural issues. We will examine the contexts of care provision, exploring what contributes to, or eases the challenge of care provision across the...

Adaptation, redundancy or resilience.

the study of the natural environment teaches us that ecological systems rich in biodiversity have greater resili ence than less diverse systems, and that resourcepoor ecosystems tend to have greater biodiversity to buffer against environ mental change. the african savannah, a huge ecosystem, contains an abundance of grasses and other plants, herbivores and their predat ors. the loss of one spec...

Peripheral Developing Odontoma or Peripheral Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma: A Rare Challenging Case

Peripheral odontogenic lesions are considered to be rare within the classification of odontogenic tumors. They share the same microscopic characteristics of their central counterparts. Here, we report an ulcerated mass of the maxillary gingiva that on histopathological examination was diagnosed as peripheral developing odontoma or peripheral ameloblastic fibroodontoma. The diagnosis of this tum...

Developing and measuring resilience for population health.