Abstract

QUICENO, Japcy Margarita  and  VINACCIA, Stefano. Resiliencia: una perspectiva desde la enfermedad crónica en población adulta. Pensam. psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.9, n.17, pp.69-82. ISSN 1657-8961.

Recently there is a gradual and rapid increase of studies on resilience in adults with or without organic diseases that are showing the importance of this construct as a protective factor for mental and physical health. It is therefore the purpose of this paper to show how the construct of resilience has transcended to the field of health especially in chronic disease. It describes the characteristics of resilient adults and psychobiological and genetic processes associated, psychometric instruments used to measure in adults, different physical pathology that have been studied and a developed program of intervention in patients with chronic illness.

Keywords : Resilience; chronic illness; resilience intervention; adult population.

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