Abstract

AMAR AMAR, José; MARTINEZ GONZALEZ, Marina  and  UTRIA UTRIA, Leider. New approach to health considering the resilience. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2013, vol.29, n.1, pp.124-133. ISSN 0120-5552.

Abstract The following is a reflection article about of the concept of health, its evolution and current considerations based in the positive psychology model, with particular emphasis on the concept of resilience, defined as the human capacity to face, overcome and be strengthened or transformed by experiences of adversity. Resilience studies point to give answers to these questions: How to develop resilience, achieve its way through adversity, trauma, or serious threats and develop harmonious and positively? Today conclusions establish that resilience is not an absolute characteristic, nor is acquired forever, but rather the result of a dynamic process, with variations depending on the nature of the trauma, the context and stage of the life where it happens. The aim of the discussion was the claim in addressing health, the subject endowed with potential for overcoming adversity and from psychology, with what tools account for such a claim. We conclude that resilience is based on the interaction between the person and the environment, allowing never be absolute or absolutely stable, reason why the approach should be complemented with the concept of risk in order to promote healthy development. The need to consider this epistemology of human development attends to the particularities of context and suggests multidisciplinary responsibility to promote health and quality of life.

Keywords : Health; health psychology; positive psychology; resiliency.

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