The Self-Reg View of Resilience

The Self-Reg View of Resilience

Stuart Shanker Stuart Shanker

Stuart Shanker

Distinguished Research Prof. Emeritus Philosophy & Psychology | Founder / Visionary, The MEHRIT Centre

发布日期: 2018年10月2日
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Resilience, according to the Self-Reg view, rests on how well we can stabilize after a challenge, serious or otherwise.

That’s what an “adaptive response” to stress or adversity consists in: the ability to get back to our optimal state of equilibrium. And resiliency starts early: quite literally at the moment of birth, if not well before.

Challenges can seem overwhelming when we’re in a low-energy/high-tension state and not just surmountable, but even exhilarating when we’re in a high-energy/high-tension state.

But then, the better we self-regulate, the better we recognize that our very feeling of helplessness is a signal that we need to rest and recover.

And if a student’s feeling of helplessness is persistent, this is a very important sign, not simply that their stress-load is excessive, but that they are locked in just the sort of dysregulated stress system that I’ve been writing about in my past few blogs: i.e., a situation where they are no longer able to return to their optimal homeostatic range.

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