Creating a Future: a Study of Resilience in Suicidal Female Adolescents

The authors designed this study to understand how adolescents overcome suicidality from the subjective perspective of 13 previously suicidal female participants drawn from across Canada. A resilience framework was used to conceptualize the process. Data analysis using basic interpretive qualitative inquiry revealed 4 domains of resilience: social processes, emotional processes, cognitive processes, & purposeful action. The domains were inextricably linked; improvements in one domain produced changes across others, adding momentum to the resilience process. Implications for practice are discussed. (40 refs.)