Understanding Vulnerability and Resilience: A Guide for Professional Staff who Work with Vulnerable Others...

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Graham Russell (University of Plymouth, UK)

Understanding Vulnerability and Resilience

A Guide for Professional Staff who Work with Vulnerable Others

Graham Russell (University of Plymouth, UK)

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Routledge
28 March 2023

Psychological theory & schools of thought; Occupational & industrial psychology; Economics; Public ownership & nationalisation; Health & Self-Help

This book offers an accessible and evidence-based approach for professional staff to improve their interactions with vulnerable people. Drawing upon contemporary research from a broad array of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, economics, biology and the neurosciences, it demonstrates how vulnerability and resilience are not fixed personality traits, as is commonly assumed, but rather fluid and dynamic states that result from inhibitory and developmental factors that reside within individuals and their external environments.

Each chapter focuses on factors that create vulnerability and those that promote resilience with reference to important subjects, such as child development, epigenetics, trauma, shame, addiction, poverty, emotional intelligence, personality, empathy, compassion and behaviour-change. Attention is given to the role of positive, early life experiences in creating an internal working model of the world that is based on trust, intimacy and hope and how the root causes of vulnerability often lie in the cyclical relationship that exists between child maltreatment, trauma and socially deprived environments that cumulatively act to keep people locked in states of inter-generational poverty. The author explores pressing and important workplace issues, such as occupational stress and burnout, and highlights the urgent need for compassionate systems of management that are functionally equipped to address human error, stress and trauma in complex professional arenas where staff are continually exposed to other peoples’ suffering. The book also demonstrates how strategies and processes which coerce individuals and groups into changing their behaviour are generally counterproductive and it explains how resilient change is invariably supported by strategies that enhance trust, cooperation, personal control and self-efficacy.

This book will benefit professional staff, including health, emergency and social services, humanitarian workers, counsellors and therapists, as well as students who want to learn more about the conceptual frameworks that explain vulnerability and resilience.

By: Graham Russell (University of Plymouth UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 160g
ISBN: 9781138490314
ISBN 10: 1138490318
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 28 March 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements About the author Preface Part One: Vulnerability 1. Defining Vulnerability 2. How vulnerability is created and maintained 3. Vulnerability and childhood 4. The psychological impact of vulnerability Part Two: Resilience 5. Defining Resilience 6. The family environment and resilience 7. Intelligence, Emotion and Compassion 8. When Compassion Fails 9. Resilience and Poverty 10. Behaviour change and Resilience Epilogue Bibliography Resilience Bibliography Vulnerability Index

Graham Russell is a Chartered Psychologist, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He spent two enjoyable decades teaching psychology to a wide range of health professionals, during which time he published the successful textbook Psychology for Nurses and Other Health Professionals. Graham has also been active in mental health research with a particular focus on the impact of social anxiety on students in higher education.