IN BRIEF Resilience can be learned and developed. The brain adopts different strategies to cope with stress. There are ways to improve individual resilience during political violence. Resilience, or the capacity to recover quickly from difficult situations is not a trait that is unique only to some. In fact, resilience—defined by Professor of Developmental Psychopathology…
Maya Bassil
Maya Bassil is an associate professor of nutrition and program coordinator of the Nutrition & Dietetics Coordinated Program at the Lebanese American University.