The importance of resilience to primary care practitioners: an interactive psycho-social model
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Date
2009
Authors
Muller, Robert
Ward, Paul Russell
Winefield, Anthony H
Tsourtos, George
Lawn, Sharon Joy
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Australasian Medical Journal
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Abstract
In this paper, it is argued that an understanding of the factors that make up resilience can
enhance communication and concordance between practitioner and patient. A model is
presented demonstrating that resilience is an interaction between factors in the internal
domain, comprising psychological characteristics and resources, and the external domain,
comprising the social environment surrounding the individual. As resilience manifests itself
in different ways across the life-cycle, and according to individual circumstances, time is also
an important part of the model presented in this paper. Understanding this model of resilience
can lead to an insight that there are factors that can be influenced whereby the primary care
practitioner can treat the patient, or refer them after a process of concordance through a
deeper understanding of the factors that surround a patient’s current health status. Underlying
the model is the view that resilience is linked to the assets model of health, seeking to
promote and maintain health and prevent illness. Therefore, primary care practitioners,
through a deeper understanding of the circumstances of the patient, and through
understanding the factors that promote resilience, may be better able to take action in health
promotion and maintenance.
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Health, Resilience, Health care, Health and wellbeing
Citation
Muller, R., Ward, P.R., Winefield, A., Lawn, S. & Tsourtos, G., 2009. The importance of resilience to primary care practitioners: an interactive psycho-social model. Australasian Medical Journal, 2(1), 1-15.