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The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

  • Raffael Kalisch*
  • , Dewleen G. Baker
  • , Ulrike Basten
  • , Marco P. Boks
  • , George A. Bonanno
  • , Eddie Brummelman
  • , Andrea Chmitorz
  • , Guillén Fernàndez
  • , Christian J. Fiebach
  • , Isaac Galatzer-Levy
  • , Elbert Geuze
  • , Sergiu Groppa
  • , Isabella Helmreich
  • , Talma Hendler
  • , Erno J. Hermans
  • , Tanja Jovanovic
  • , Thomas Kubiak
  • , Klaus Lieb
  • , Beat Lutz
  • , Marianne B. Müller
  • Ryan J. Murray, Caroline M. Nievergelt, Andreas Reif, Karin Roelofs, Bart P.F. Rutten, David Sander, Anita Schick, Oliver Tüscher, Ilse Van Diest, Anne Laura Van Harmelen, Ilya M. Veer, Eric Vermetten, Christiaan H. Vinkers, Tor D. Wager, Henrik Walter, Michèle Wessa, Michael Wibral, Birgit Kleim
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Intresa consortium
  • Department of Veterans Affairs
  • University of California at San Diego
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Utrecht University
  • Columbia University
  • Stanford University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • IDeA Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk
  • New York University
  • Ministry of Defense
  • Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
  • Emory University
  • University of Geneva
  • Maastricht University
  • KU Leuven
  • University of Cambridge
  • Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • Leiden University
  • Arq Psychotrauma Research Group Diemen
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • University of Zurich

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Abstract

Consistent failure over the past few decades to reduce the high prevalence of stress-related disorders has motivated a search for alternative research strategies. Resilience refers to the phenomenon of many people maintaining mental health despite exposure to psychological or physical adversity. Instead of aiming to understand the pathophysiology of stress-related disorders, resilience research focuses on protective mechanisms that shield people against the development of such disorders and tries to exploit its insights to improve treatment and, in particular, disease prevention. To fully harness the potential of resilience research, a critical appraisal of the current state of the art - in terms of basic concepts and key methods - is needed. We highlight challenges to resilience research and make concrete conceptual and methodological proposals to improve resilience research. Most importantly, we propose to focus research on the dynamic processes of successful adaptation to stressors in prospective longitudinal studies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)784-790
Number of pages7
JournalNature Human Behaviour
Volume1
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2017

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Institutes of Health
European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme
National Institute of Mental Health1080, ERC-CoG682591, K01MH102415
Netherlands Brain FoundationF2013(1)-216
MiND667302
Rockefeller Foundation2012-RLC 304
Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftCRC 1193
Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of AustralasiaERC_StG2012_313749
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungH2020/2014-2020, 100014-143398, 100014
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme705217, 643051, 682591
European Commission313749, C06, FI 848/5-1, H2020/705217
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek916-11-086, 451-13-001, 453-12-001
European Research CouncilERC-CoG 617891, ERC-StG2012-313749
Royal SocietyDH150176
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation2013067

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