APPENDIX

THE RESILIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM

Although Challenge of Change Resilience Training is very practical and easily understood, one of its key features is the strong research evidence on which it is based. The research forms an invisible but essential foundation, and for the interested reader, the research is described in more detail in this Appendix.

The research program commenced in the early 1980s. It was conducted primarily at the University of York in the United Kingdom and at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. It all began with the simple observation that when people are exposed to disasters, afterward only a small proportion of them are diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ...

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