“…A multitude of research studies on trauma and resilience have been conducted, most notably on war-affected communities (Diab, Peltonen, Qouta, Palosaari, & Punamäki, 2015;Raffaelli & Iturbide, 2015;Vindevogel, Ager, Schiltz, Broekaert, & Derluyn, 2015;Winter, Brown, Goins, Mason, 2016) and veterans (Pietrzak & Southwick, 2011;Tsai, Harpaz-Rotem, Pietrzak, & Southwick, 2012), victims of terror attacks (Fredrickson, Tugade, Waugh, & Larkin, 2003), natural disasters, such as hurricanes (Pietrzak et al, 2012) and earthquakes (Ahmad et al, 2010;Feder, Ahmad et al, 2013), sexual abuse (Crete & Singh, 2015;Domhardt, Münzer, Fegert, & Goldbeck, 2015), at-risk communities with poor social support and health care (Alim et al, 2008;Heath, Donald, Theron, & Lyon, 2014;Southwick, Morgan, Vythilingam, & Charney, 2006), bullying (Sapouna & Wolke, 2013), immigrant populations (Bursztyn & Korn-Bursztyn, 2015;Georgiades, 2016;Paat, 2014), as well as refugees (Shakya et al, 2014) and indentured child laborers (Maercker, Hilpert, & Burri, 2016). High rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depressive symptoms have been observed in the vulnerable victims of these traumas.…”