Resilience has been defined as a positive adaptation in response to adversity. Two researchers, Hamidah Mahdiani (University of Mainz, Germany) and Michael Ungar (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada), have pointed to the risks of this concept. They ask who decides if an adaptation is positive and warn of the risk of focusing on adaptation to an adversity at the expense of challenging that adversity.
Is resilience always a good thing?
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