Abstract:
Although disaster brings certain physical and mental trauma to adolescents, it stimulates their intrinsic resilience, develops their courage and wisdom to confront the disaster, and helps their growth.After the Wenchuan earthquake, adolescent resilience makes difference in directly reducing PTSD, enhancing the self-respect, developing skills and abilities to deal with disasters, and promoting social interaction to obtain more support.To stimulate adolescent resilience demand constructing the balance among the dangerous factors, the pressure event and protection factors from the aspects of individual, family, school as well as society.Besides, the rehabilitation requires emphasizing the value of strengths-centered and empowerment, adopting interactive operational frame between human and environment, implementing multi-disciplinary methods and psychological reconstruction strategies concerning the region and cultural sensitivity.