Resilience and Disability: Consideration and Integration of Resilience Training in Undergraduate Rehabilitation Service Programs

Several factors mentioned throughout the literature are associated with resilience. Some of these factors include locus of control, 16,17 mental and emotional regulation, attitude and outlook on life, 18 prayer and meditation, spirituality, 5,18 forgiveness, 19,20 compassion, 21 self-compassion, gratitude, meaning-making, 22 problem-solving skills, 23 social and family support, 5 perseverance, 24 grit, cognitive flexibility, facing one's fears, inner strength, 25 personal growth and transformation, 21 and hope. 4 Many of these factors are useful to people with disabilities as

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“…Derived from this definition, Stuntzner and colleagues [28][29][30] explain six vital points. These points include:…”

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“…In these instances, people's ability to be resilient is hindered by the layered and continued hurts often thrust upon them. Due to the multifaceted nature of disability and its associated experiences, Stuntzner and colleagues [28][29][30] felt that an expanded definition of resilience is warranted.…”

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Cultivating forgiveness, resilience and positive change: a resilience intervention pilot study among persons with disabilities

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“…As shown in Multimedia Appendix 2 , for the e398 support and relationships subcategory, the closest term identified by our model is resilience . Resilience has been recently regarded as a key feature of rehabilitation and living life well following a disability [ 43 ]. Evidence shows that resilience-based skills have multiple benefits once applied to people’s lives (eg, a carry-over effect to other life domains).…”

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“…Furthermore, it does not yet have one unified definition, and research scholars have not decided on one specific understanding of what resilience means. Understanding resilience is an important component of building resilience [ 43 ].…”

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Discovering the Context of People With Disabilities: Semantic Categorization Test and Environmental Factors Mapping of Word Embeddings from Reddit

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Background The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) conceptualizes disability not solely as a problem that resides in the individual, but as a health experience that occurs in a context. Word embeddings build on the idea that words that occur in similar contexts tend to have similar meanings. In spite of both sharing “context” as a key component, word embeddings have been scarcely applied in disability. In this work, we propose social media (particularly, Reddit) to link them. Objective The objective of our study is to train a model for generating word associations using a small dataset (a subreddit on disability) able to retrieve meaningful content. This content will be formally validated and applied to the discovery of related terms in the corpus of the disability subreddit that represent the physical, social, and attitudinal environment (as defined by a formal framework like the ICF) of people with disabilities. Methods Reddit data were collected from pushshift.io with the pushshiftr R package as a wrapper. A word2vec model was trained with the wordVectors R package using the disability subreddit comments, and a preliminary validation was performed using a subset of Mikolov analogies. We used Van Overschelde’s updated and expanded version of the Battig and Montague norms to perform a semantic categories test. Silhouette coefficients were calculated using cosine distance from the wordVectors R package. For each of the 5 ICF environmental factors (EF), we selected representative subcategories addressing different aspects of daily living (ADLs); then, for each subcategory, we identified specific terms extracted from their formal ICF definition and ran the word2vec model to generate their nearest semantic terms, validating the obtained nearest semantic terms using public evidence. Finally, we applied the model to a specific subcategory of an EF involved in a relevant use case in the field of rehabilitation. Results We analyzed 96,314 comments posted between February 2009 and December 2019, by 10,411 Redditors. We trained word2vec and identified more than 30 analogies (eg, breakfast – 8 am + 8 pm = dinner). The semantic categorization test showed promising results over 60 categories; for example, s(A relative)=0.562, s(A sport)=0.475 provided remarkable explanations for low s values. We mapped the representative subcategories of all EF chapters and obtained the closest terms for each, which we confirmed with publications. This allowed immediate access (≤ 2 seconds) to the terms related to ADLs, ranging from apps “to know accessibility before you go” to adapted sports (boccia). For example, for the support and relationships EF subcategory, the closest term discovered by our model was “resilience,” recently regarded as a key feature of rehabilitation, not yet having one unified definition. Our model discovered 10 closest terms, which we validated with publications, contributing to the “resilience” definition. Conclusions This study opens up interesting opportunities for the exploration and discovery of the use of a word2vec model that has been trained with a small disability dataset, leading to immediate, accurate, and often unknown (for authors, in many cases) terms related to ADLs within the ICF framework.

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“…The skills learned can be used to help people with disabilities effectively cope with the disability and disability-related situations, improve insight and understanding about their ability to address and overcome stressful life events, and live a more fulfilled life. The decisions and choices people make can help reduce negative thoughts and feelings, identify positive ways of coping, and behave in ways more consistent with the life they seek (p. 14) Derived from this definition, Stuntzner and colleagues [28][29][30] explain six vital points. These points include:…”

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Resilience and Disability: Consideration and Integration of Resilience Training in Undergraduate Rehabilitation Service Programs

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Cultivating forgiveness, resilience and positive change: a resilience intervention pilot study among persons with disabilities

Cultivating forgiveness, resilience and positive change: a resilience intervention pilot study among persons with disabilities

Discovering the Context of People With Disabilities: Semantic Categorization Test and Environmental Factors Mapping of Word Embeddings from Reddit

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