Resilience is spreading: Mental health within the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authors :: PeConga EK
Gauthier GM
Holloway A
Walker RSW
Rosencrans PL
Zoellner LA
Bedard-Gilligan M
Source :: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy [Psychol Trauma] 2020 Aug; Vol. 12 (S1), pp. S47-S48. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 04.
Publication Year :: 2020
Abstract: The COVID-19 global pandemic is in many ways unchartered mental health territory, but history would suggest that long-term resilience will be the most common outcome, even for those most directly impacted by the outbreak. We address 4 common myths about resilience and discuss ways to systematically build individual and community resiliency. Actively cultivating social support, adaptive meaning, and direct prosocial behaviors to reach the most vulnerable can have powerful resilience promoting effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).