Welcome to Dr. Sterling's Resilience Web Page!

The mission of this page is to provide you with information and resources for understanding resilience. Recovery and growth depend a lot on our ability to "bounce back" or "bounce forward."

Here are a few links to get you started on thinking more about resilience.
Resilience Test at Discovery.com.

American Psychological Association -- The Road to Resilience.

Ten Ways to Build Resilience.

"Learned Optimism" Yields Health Benefits.

You Can Reduce the Effects of Stress.

You can read about the hippocampus, a small, horseshoe-shaped part of our brain that is very important to moods and memory at the Hippocampus.us Web site. The hippocampus, like many other parts of the human brain, can be very resilient and regrow and repair itself.

Links to Web Sites and Articles on Recovery.

Here are some links to help you understand more about the concept of recovery and how it may apply to your life's circumstances and challenges.
• Psychiatric News article posted August 15, 2003 -- Up Close and Personal: Changing Minds About Schizophrenia.

• Seattle P-I article posted July 28, 2003 -- Communities: Back in the pool of life -- Woman stays on top of her fight with mental illness.

• Emotional Recovery From Job Loss.

• Overview of Recovery at 1999 Mental Health Report of the United States Surgeon General.

• Psychiatric News article posted January 3, 2003 -- Recovery Movement Gains Influence In Mental Health Programs.

• Check the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University's Web site --
  The Recovery Center. The Recovery Center is based on a concept of recovery that is rooted in consumers' experiences and their articulation of what has helped them to heal. Many articles and other resources are available.

• Check the National Mental Health Association (NMHA) -- Dialogue for Recovery.
  • NMHA -- Leaders in Recovery Discuss Their Lives and Work.

  • NMHA -- NMHA Presents Highest Honor to Pioneering Advocates.

  • NMHA -- Supported Employment for Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities.

• The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has several pages devoted to recovery issues:
  • The Role of PACT in Recovery.

  • EEOC changes to job application questions.

  • Information about famous people throughout history who have had a serious mental illness.

• Check the National Empowerment Center, Inc. Web site.
  • People can recover from mental illness.

  • Reclaiming your power during medication appointments with your psychiatrist.

• Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education -- A Recovery Poem.

• Mental Health Recovery: What Helps and What Hinders?. A report published in October 2002 by the National Technical Assistance Center and subtitled "A National Research Project for the Development of Recovery Facilitating System Performance Indicators." (108 page Adobe Acrobat document).

• Pulse's Recovery Page -- Selected studies, reports, articles, major news stories and Internet resources on recovery.

• The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free consulting service that provides information about job accommodations, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the employability of people with disabilities.

• Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health -- System Level Performance Measures of Recovery.

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