Resilience generally means the ability to recover from some shock or disturbance. There are different meanings for, resilience in psychology: the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune resilience of a material: the physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed (elasticity) resilience of a system: the ability of a system to recover from difficulties;toughness Psychology Resilience is a term used in psychology to describe the capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. It is also used to indicate a characteristic of resistance to future negative events. This psychological meaning of resilience is often contrasted with "risk factors". Materials In physics and engineering, resilience is defined as the capacity of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically and then, upon unloading to have this energy recovered. In other words, it is the maximum energy per volume that can be elastically stored. It is represented by the area...