What is resilience?

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 258-265

  Herrman, Helen ^a,b   Stewart, Donna E ^c   Diaz Granados, Natalia ^d,e   Berger, Elena L ^f   Jackson, Beth ^g   Yuen, Tracy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental Disorders   (United States)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene environment interaction; Mental health; Public health; Resilience

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGREABLENESS; ART; CANADA; CHILD ABUSE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPETENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRAVERSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HARDINESS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NEUROBIOLOGY; OPENNESS; OPTIMISM; PERSONALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RELIGION; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 79958755712     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674371105600504     Document Type: Review

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