Resilience as a Relational Construct

The Relational and Emotion Regulatory Model of Resilience (RERR) presented in this book is an empirically grounded and innovative systematization of scientific knowledge regarding the relational nature of resilience based on a critical analysis and integration of different theoretical perspectives. Model RERR builds on Relational Competence Theory (RCT, L'Abate, 1995; L'Abate & Cusinato, 2012) and the Broaden-and-Built Theory (Tugade & Fredrickson, 2007) but it derives some of its postulates and assumptions from The Dynamic Model of Affect (DMA Davis, Zautra,& Smith, 2004; Zautra, 2003), the Coping and Emotion Flexibility paradigm (Bonanno, Pat-Horenczyk & Noll ,2011) and the Multiple Trajectories of outcome approach to resilience (Bonanno, 2008; Bonanno & Mancini,2012). Every part of this volume is well elaborated, amply discussed, and critically supported. Evidence is paramount and resilience is no longer a convenient construct suddenly produced from thin air or inventive or utopian fantasies. Resilience is a real important construct that is no longer an orphan theoretically or clinically L. L'Abate