Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery in a High-Risk African-American Population

Alim, Tanya N.; Feder, Adriana; Graves, Ruth Elaine; Wang, Yanping; Weaver, James; Westphal, Maren; Alonso, Angelique; Aigbogun, Notalelomwan; Smith, Bruce W.; Doucette, John; Mellman, Thomas A.; Lawson, William B.; Charney, Dennis S.

doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.07121939

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“…Examples of this approach include the following: i) absence of psychopathology in high-risk samples (Alim et al, 2008;Parry et al, 2008); ii) in a chronic pain model, high scores on severity combined with low scores on interference and emotional burden (Karoly & Ruehlman, 2006); iii) from longitudinal observation, an increase in mental distress symptoms during exposure to adversity followed by a subsequent return back to pre-exposure levels (Netuveli et al, 2008).…”

Section: Measures Of Mental Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The use of absent (or low severity) psychopathology in a high-risk sample as an indicator of resilience may be evaluating a wide variety of different cognitive, somatic, behavioural and affective domains of mental disorder and thus may decrease the effect size of any specific resilience effect (Alim et al, 2008;Parry et al, 2008). The use of greater precision in terminology may help.…”

Section: Some Challenges For Future Resilience Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Resilience and mental health

Davydov¹,

Stewart²,

Ritchie

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Clinical Psychology Review

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Section: Some Challenges For Future Resilience Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and mental health

Davydov¹,

Stewart²,

Ritchie

et al. 2010

Clinical Psychology Review

879

726

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“…Not every individual who experiences stress develops features of depression or anxiety (Rutter, 1985;Southwick et al, 2005;Alim et al, 2008). Previous studies have identified subpopulations in rodent models that are resilient to the effects of stress (Kabbaj, 2004;Bergstrom et al, 2007;Krishnan et al, 2007;Sandi et al, 2008;Feder et al, 2009;Schmidt et al, 2010;Wood et al, 2010;Blugeot et al, 2011;Stiller et al, 2011;Taliaz et al, 2011;Castro et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

Distinct Effects of Repeated Restraint Stress on Basolateral Amygdala Neuronal Membrane Properties in Resilient Adolescent and Adult Rats

Hetzel

Rosenkranz

2014

Neuropsychopharmacol

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Severe and repeated stress has damaging effects on health, including initiation of depression and anxiety. Stress that occurs during development has long-lasting and particularly damaging effects on emotion. The basolateral amygdala (BLA) plays a key role in many affective behaviors, and repeated stress causes different forms of BLA hyperactivity in adolescent and adult rats. However, the mechanism is not known. Furthermore, not every individual is susceptible to the negative consequences of stress. Differences in the effects of stress on the BLA might contribute to determine whether an individual will be vulnerable or resilient to the effects of stress on emotion. The purpose of this study is to test the cellular underpinnings for age dependency of BLA hyperactivity after stress, and whether protective changes occur in resilient individuals. To test this, the effects of repeated stress on membrane excitability and other membrane properties of BLA principal neurons were compared between adult and adolescent rats, and between vulnerable and resilient rats, using in vitro whole-cell recordings. Vulnerability was defined by adrenal gland weight, and verified by body weight gain after repeated restraint stress, and fecal pellet production during repeated restraint sessions. We found that repeated stress increased the excitability of BLA neurons, but in a manner that depended on age and BLA subnucleus. Furthermore, stress resilience was associated with an opposite pattern of change, with increased slow afterhyperpolarization (AHP) potential, whereas vulnerability was associated with decreased medium AHP. The opposite outcomes in these two populations were further distinguished by differences of anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus maze that were correlated with BLA neuronal excitability and AHP. These results demonstrate a substrate for BLA hyperactivity after repeated stress, with distinct membrane properties to target, as well as age-dependent factors that contribute to resilience to the effects of stress.

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“…On a personal level, for example, optimism has been confirmed as a protective factor in adults who experienced traumatic events such as earthquakes (Najarian et al 2011). Finding purpose in life may also be protective, as was found in atrisk adults who had been exposed to a range of severe traumas such as sexual or physical assault or assault with a weapon (Alim et al 2008). An internal locus of control and strong self-efficacy were found to be protective in adults who went through a number of risk experiences, such as poverty, hurricanes, or growing up with mentally ill parents (Werner and Smith 1992).…”

Section: Risks As Sources Of Mental Stress and Traumamentioning

confidence: 96%

Psychological Resilience Building in Disaster Risk Reduction: Contributions from Adult Education

Höfler

2014

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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This article discusses three questions: What opportunities exist to enhance psychological resilience in adults? Why should psychological resilience promotion be considered an important disaster risk reduction strategy? What contribution can adult education make to such a strategy? Psychological resilience is presented as relational and somewhat malleable, even in adulthood. Although psychological resilience building is often overlooked in social-level disaster risk reduction efforts, it is a key strategy for social resilience building. Questions regarding the extent to which mental resilience can be improved and the techniques with which to do so may be answered by research in the field of adult education. Basic learning and teaching research fundamentals are suggested to create psychological resilience-building strategies in adults.

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Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery in a High-Risk African-American Population

Cited by 207 publications

References 37 publications

Resilience and mental health

Resilience and mental health

Distinct Effects of Repeated Restraint Stress on Basolateral Amygdala Neuronal Membrane Properties in Resilient Adolescent and Adult Rats

Psychological Resilience Building in Disaster Risk Reduction: Contributions from Adult Education

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