“…Although for many years psychologists defined resilience as the capacity to bend without breaking, a metaphor inspired by metal physics, to date it is recognized that traumas hinder humans to return to the same biopsychosocial states they were before the adverse event (Allen, 2011). Thus, resilience can be described as the individual capacity to adaptively handle adversities (Luthar et al, 2006), exhibiting emotional stamina (Wagnild & Young, 1990) and being strengthened by the negative event (Grotberg, 1995;Cyrulnik, 2001). A resilient individual can ameliorate from a traumatic experience, discovering her/his true potential and reprogramming the future (Connor and Davidson, 2003).…”