Analyzing Resilience Coaching: A Literature Review on Mental Health

This literature review examines the effectiveness of resilience coaching in improving mental health and coping mechanisms, particularly in individuals who have experienced trauma. The review highlights the importance of resilience in adapting to adversity, threats, and significant stress factors. It discusses various dimensions that contribute to positive mental health through resilience coaching, including strategies for managing anxiety, stress, and negative thoughts. The review also explores the role of counselors in building resilience by addressing past experiences and promoting emotional well-being, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. Specific exercises and activities, such as Mandala station and emotional resilience exercises, are presented as effective tools for enhancing resilience in children and adults. Ultimately, the review concludes that fostering resilience can significantly improve an individual's ability to cope with challenges, enhance their quality of life, and promote overall mental well-being.

LITERATURE REVIEW

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Resilience refers to a process of adopting trauma, threats, tragedy, adversity along with
significant source of stress like relationship problem, serious health issues, financial stress,
family stress. There is various dimension that leads to positive mental health with the help of
resilience coaching. Through this, it can help to enable individual to provide better mental health
and help to get rid of trauma or any fear. There is various type of resilience which can be more
effective. In case study of Amira, resilience coaching can be more effective that is suggested by
the support worker. Amira parents should take care about the resilience coaching and enable
Amira to achieve better mental health. In this, there is a discussion about the environmental
health and her experience where with the help of resilience coaching. There is need to provide
better mental health impact on Amira and improve her psychological thinking with the help of
resilience coaching (Archer, (2017)).
MAIN BODY
According to Ackerman (2021), Amira is 14-year-old and get traumatized due to terror
attack. In this, Amira have some mental health issue which includes depression, withdrawal, lack
of sleep, nightmares, self-isolation and worry. According to social worker resilience coaching
can be effective that can have a high benefit for the Amira. Resilience refers to a quality of
recovering quickly from adversity and failure. This can help to get return and act normally for
better opportunity in growing and for the personal development. Resilience have high impact on
individual mind and help to provide calm and help in getting normal with the condition for
resilience. There is need for stress and trauma which can help record remarkably adapting Amira
to adapt with her nightmare. In this, there is need to enable help to learn about building
resilience. Resilient people can be fearful and withdrawal with the society but after this they
come back stronger and wiser (Wagner, (2019)). It is most important to exercise for improving
resilience that can help to train awareness and attention. In this, there is need to build intentional
and purposeful that can help to decrease negative thought and help to draw attention for
meaningful thought. Increasing resilience can help to focus on exercise and decrease anxiety and
stress along with building quality of life for the individual. With the help of exercise, Amira is
able to decrease anxiety and stress and can in gaining for the quality of life that can help her
more effectively (How To Build Resilience With Resilience Training, (2021)).

According to Courtney (2021), it has been claimed that resilience can help young adult or
children to enable them to deal with their anxiety and stress and better cope with distress. It can
be helpful to provide potential to an individual to get rid from any threatening circumstances and
help to adopt with better environment and attain wellbeing. It has been also including that
children are highly effective through resilience and can rebound in the traumatic experience.
Through applying the resilience children may get better benefit and can attend better state of
mind that can help them to improve their mental stress and health more effectively. There should
also focus on their social and emotional capacity which can enable them to provide and feel
confident within them to perform any activity. Resilience coaching can have the focus on
building someone's personal assets (Gazley, (2020)). This can help to provide process of growth
that can be rebounded and help client to focus on their baseline of resilience scale. Within
therapeutic setting, counselors play an important role in building resilience that can allow them
to discussing about past experiences and trauma. It allows you to focus on better understanding
about the skill and help to exist the resilience within individual (Twum-Antwi, (2020)). Here,
Amira should get focused on building confidence and can get rid of stress, anxiety and fear.
There can also be risk of different factor like perceived stress, negative effect, depression and
anxiety where individual and their family member should have integrated to provide the
protective factor for the resilience in healing. In this, Amira need to also understand what is
helping are more effectively that should be adopted by her and can focus while adopting
resilience. Resonance coaching is highly effective and help to encourage individual to develop
internal control that can help to enable Amira to control her life. It can also provide good self-
esteem that can enable Amira to feel valuable and worthy. Through this, Amira can also feel the
good sense of self-efficacy and build self-awareness regarding emotion and understand the
management regarding her emotion (Resilience Coaching and Counseling: 29 Helpful Tools and
Techniques, (2021)). There is different factor which includes the communication, confidence,
connection to others, commitment, control and competence. Good mental health is also
important that can allow to live effectively and allow Amira to deal with the more effectively
after developing resilience.
According to Kelly Miller (2021), through enhancing such type of characteristic can help
to improve resilience for the Amira and enable her to focus on her wellbeing. There is Pan
Residency program that is able to provide resistance training for multiple important area and

long with scales for enhancing resilience that includes assertiveness, relaxation, coping and
emotion, regulation, decision making, perspective talking and cognitive restructuring. Pan
Residency Program is for children where thousands of United State army and police focuses on
improving different skills in 6 competency area which includes self-awareness, mental ability,
self-regulation, strength of character, connection and optimism. Discussed from characteristic
and competencies, there are some specific activity exercise and worksheet which can be highly
effective and are built for resilience in children (Brewer, (2019)). Many children are suffering
from mental health problem which includes various issues like any incident that can made them
fearful and provide stress. This is highly difficult for children to get adopt in the world with
better health impact. In this, there is need to build resilience that can help them to face the
challenges and adopt with the thought and coping skill can help them to live effective life and
improve their quality of life. These are like withdrawal and stress, nightmares and others which
can impact her living of life and enable to face difficulty in coping with normal world. Through
using the resilience, she may able to deal with their social and emotional well-being and can
enable their better life with better impact (Harcourt, (2018)).
According to Courtney (2021), there are various exercise and activity that can help Amira
to cope with this world and conduct resilience. There are some of the popular and effective
resources can be more helpful for Amira like Mandela station where it allowed to explore
feelings through color. Exercise intended for children that can enable them to build resilience
and help to adapt with better health. It helps to provide suggestion and method for boosting
resilience within children through completing exercise and explore the feelings which can help to
develop and enhance resilience. Mandala design are made of circle or oval shape, diamond shape
and empty color inside. This includes two straight line in the middle and across the design which
is splitted into 4 section with major area of life for children which includes friend, home, school
and self. After completing design, there is a need to discuss about the color with them that can
enable them to feel the color and understand what color represents. Through this, Amira can feel
about different area of life and able to express her feelings (Trevillion, (2018)). Along with this,
causing change is which can help her to get healthy development. Emotional resilience exercise
is divided in three parts where every part help to develop resilience within individual. In this first
step, there is need to identify individual strength. Here, through answering some question it able
to focus on objective truth (De Sanctis, (2018)). Here it need to tell truth and be honest regarding

questions like what is the best thing about you? What do you like most in yourself? what do you
like to do when you are at your best? what brings best in you what is most significant
achievement and the strength which can help in future and helped in past? This is highly
effective and provide a perspective of resilience that can provide positive aspect and help to
adopt resilience within. This can be effective and can help to build resilience within Amira and
better cope with the situation and make herself confident that can deliver life more effectively
and can improve their quality of life (Farquhar, (2018)).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can be concluded that children should not exposed to war but
in case something happened. there is a need to ensure about their mental health. adults should
keep focusing on Children and encourage resilience within them that can help to clinically help
and gain better mental health. In this, there is need to identify individual strength and ability that
can help them to get rid from the trauma or weakness. In this, there is a discussion about the
resonance and its benefit that can help to deal with the individual with past trauma and facing
withdrawal, stress and anxiety, low self-esteem and others. There is also discussion about benefit
of resonance coaching which can be more effective to adopt more effective well-being and health
and that can help to provide better health.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Brewer, (2019). Evaluation of a leadership development program to enhance university staff and
student resilience. Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 10(2),
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De Sanctis, (2018). Resilience for lean organisational network. International Journal of
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Farquhar, (2018). Strategies for enhancing medical student resilience: student and faculty
member perspectives. International journal of medical education, 9, 1.
Gazley, (2020). The role of resilience in Black men’s success in STEM graduate programs. The
Journal of Negro Education, 89(3), 360-372.
Harcourt, (2018). Customer-contact employee empowerment and resilience of quick service
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Trevillion, (2018). Executive Coaching Outcomes: An investigation into leadership development
using five dyadic case studies illustrating the impact of executive
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Twum-Antwi, (2020). Promoting child and youth resilience by strengthening home and school
environments: A literature review. International Journal of School & Educational
Psychology, 8(2), 78-89.
Wagner, (2019). Exploring resilience in family physicians working in primary health care in the
Cape Metropole. African journal of primary health care & family medicine, 11(1), 1-10.
Online
Resilience Coaching and Counseling: 29 Helpful Tools and Techniques, (2021) [Online]
Available through <https://positivepsychology.com/resilience-coaching-counseling-
tools-techniques/>
How To Build Resilience With Resilience Training, (2021) [Online] Available through
<https://positivepsychology.com/resilience-training-build-resilient-individuals-groups/>