The Mind's Design: The Neuroscience of Stress and Resilience

Resilience and the ability to manage stress contribute to life satisfaction and success. Resiliency contributes to academic and professional success, healthy interpersonal relationships, confidence in oneself, and is a positive predictor of life satisfaction. The body's stress response is a highly orchestrated biological action that can help or hinder resiliency. Understanding both the psychological and neuroscience components of stress and resiliency aids in understanding the "resilient person" prototype and offers insights into what interventions might increase the highly desired characteristic of resiliency. [For the complete volume, "American Association for Adult and Continuing Education Inaugural 2020 Conference Proceedings (Online, October 27-30, 2020)," see ED611534.]