Lecture: Alex J. Zautra Ph.D. - "Resilience, More Than a Metaphor"
The Center for Research on Families is pleased to announce the next Tay Gavin Lecture, featuring Dr. Alex J. Zautra, Foundation Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University.
In this talk, Zautra will consider the properties, applications, and variations of Resilience. He will offer a road map for future research guided by past and present empirical evidence, beginning by defining Resilience as a natural capacity for sustainability of purpose and recovery from adversity, shaped by social-cultural forces within communities. Using data from a series of studies on chronic pain, he will illustrate how resilience is more than a metaphor, advocate methods for research on resilience across the life-span, and open discussion of innovative interventions designed to further resilience within people and across communities.
Dr. Alex Zautra’s research examines the role of stress and emotions on the capacities of people to sustain wellbeing and recover from illness and other life challenges. He has published over 90 scientific papers, and is the recent author of Emotions, Stress and Health, published by Oxford University Press. His publications embrace topics of preservation of quality of life, healthy social relations and positive adaptation to chronic pain. In his current research, he focuses on the role of chronic illness and resilience in the health and well-being of adults as they age.
Free and open to all.