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Resilience and mental health
Dmitry M Davydov1, Robert Stewart, Karen Ritchie
1Moscow Research Centre of Narcology, Russia. d.m.davydov@gmail.com
Clinical Psychology Review
|April 17, 2010
Summary
This study proposes a unified biopsychosocial model to understand resilience, a key factor in mental health and thriving despite adversity. This framework aims to clarify research and identify intervention points for enhancing positive mental health.
Area of Science:
- Mental Health Research
- Psychology
- Biopsychosocial Health Models
Background:
- Limited focus on the relationship between disease and good health in mental health studies.
- Resilience, a defense mechanism for thriving amid adversity, is a crucial but inconsistently defined and measured concept.
- Heterogeneous research on resilience lacks a common theoretical construct, hindering evaluation and meta-analysis.
Purpose of the Study:
- To unify the heterogeneous research on resilience by proposing a common theoretical construct.
- To collate and classify existing research around a multi-level biopsychosocial model.
- To identify potential intervention points for enhancing resilience and positive mental health.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual unification of resilience research through a multi-level biopsychosocial framework.
- Classification of available research based on the proposed model.
- Theoretical comparison to host resistance models in infectious disease.
Main Results:
- A proposed multi-level biopsychosocial model for understanding resilience.
- Reorganization of current knowledge around a unitary concept of resilience.
- Identification of potential intervention strategies for improving resilience and mental health.
Conclusions:
- A unified theoretical construct is essential for advancing resilience research.
- The proposed biopsychosocial model offers a framework for clarifying knowledge and guiding interventions.
- Enhancing resilience is a viable target for mental health treatment and prophylaxis.
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