The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
by Leni Wildflower, Diane Brennan
REIVICH, SHATTE, AND RESILIENCE
Resilience is widely regarded as the ability to persevere in the face of stressors and to bounce back from setbacks (Reivich & Shatte, 2002). It is connected to psychological well-being, development, success, and happiness. People who are not born resilient can become so. When faced with a difficult situation, people may revert to pessimistic beliefs and behavior. They may engage in one of several thinking traps, such as jumping to conclusions, having tunnel vision, magnifying the negative and minimizing the positive, personalizing or externalizing blame, overgeneralizing small setbacks, engaging in mind reading, and using unhelpful emotional reasoning (Reivich & Shatte, 2002). One of the main pathways to resilience ...
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