ABSTRACT
In this chapter we attempt to define the concept of resilience as the individual’s capacity to process traumatic experiences. We begin by looking at how resilience has been described in the literature in various disciplines and distinguishing our approach from some of the main current concepts. We focus on the central challenge of the cognitive processing of a traumatic experience and base our view of resilience on it. To conceptualize resilience from this cognitive perspective we introduce the model of minimal learning, which can help define the end-state of resilient processing.
