Building resilient Building resilient practitioners

Abstract

Resilience can be ‘Resilience can be ‘encouraged, cultivated or encouraged, cultivated or disrupted, but certainly not taught or imparted by wellimparted by well-intentioned professionals’ intentioned professionals’ (Furedi 2009, p. 99). Rather, resilience emerges from the actions people take when faced with challenging and unexpected circumstances and ‘through improvisation and adaptation’ to changeable and challenging circumstances (Furedi 2008, p. 658).