Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands. There are a number of factors that contribute to how well people adapt to adversities, predominant among them: (1) the way in which the individual views and …
Many people think forgiveness is a sign of weakness. But here is a real story that showcases the power of forgiveness. An act of forgiveness that broke a hard hear-ted serial killer down in minutes. Gary Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, was an American serial killer who was convicted of 49 murders, but …
Traditionally, the word emotion was termed a negative term. Intense emotions were considered dysfunctional and irrational. Annette Stanton, a positive psychologist, and her colleagues spent many years working on emotional-focused coping. This approach states that coping through an emotional approach might carry an adaptive potential; the realization depends on the situational context, the interpersonal milieu, …
During the 20th century, emotions were disparaged by psychology research and practice. The public and professionals considered emotion as a detrimental thing to include in rational decision-making; emotions were not acknowledged as an essential component. Research in emotions were popularized in the 21st century and categorized as positive and negative emotions and how to adapt to these emotions. Daniel …
Emotions are complex reaction patterns that involve experiential, behavioral, and physiological elements by which an individual attempts to deal with a significant personal matter or event. The specific category of emotion, for example, shame, guilt, or fear, is determined by the specific significance of the event. Emotion typically involves feeling but differs from feeling in …
Domestic violence is any action by a person that causes physical harm to one or more members of his or her family. For example, it involves one partner battering the other, violence against children by a parent, or violence against elders by younger family members. Domestic violence is an ongoing experience of physical and psychological …
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