Individual resilience involves behaviors, thoughts, and actions that promote personal wellbeing and mental health. People can develop the ability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from stress and adversity – and maintain or return to a state of mental health wellbeing – by using effective coping strategies. We call this individual resilience. Read more.
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