Fostering Resilient Outcomes

In thinking about resiliency in clinical practice, most seek to understand the special quality about an individual that helps him overcome adversity.  In a simplistic version of  this inquiry, the professional may look at a person's characteristics to ascertain what makes him stronger than another, as if resiliency is located within a person rather than how he is affected by his lived experience.  In an attempt to complicate the construct of resilience, by using…