"If you want to understand something, try to change it": Social-psychological interventions to cultivate resilience

Authors
Publication date 2015
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Article number e96
Volume | Issue number 38
Pages (from-to) 24-25
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Research Institute of Child Development and Education (RICDE)
Abstract We argue that social psychology has unique potential for advancing understanding of resilience. An exciting development that illustrates this is the emergence of social-psychological interventions - brief, stealthy, and psychologically precise interventions - that can yield broad and lasting benefits by targeting key resilience mechanisms. Such interventions provide a causal test of resilience mechanisms and bring about positive change in people's lives.
Document type Article
Note Open peer commentary to: Kalisch, R., Müller, M.B. & Tüscher, O. (2015). A conceptual framework for the neurobiological study of resilience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38 (e92).
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X14001472
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