Building resilience with the Stress Resilience Training System: Design validation and applications
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BACKGROUND: Resilience to stress is critical in today's military service. Past work has shown that experts handle stress in more productive ways compared to novices. Training that specifically addresses stress regulation, such as the Graduated Stress Exposure paradigm, can build individual and unit resilience as well as adaptability so that stressors trigger effective stress coping skills rather than stress injury. OBJECTIVE: We developed the Stress Resilience Training System (SRTS), a product of Perceptronics Solutions Inc., to demonstrate that a software training app can provide an effective individualized method for mitigating the negative effects of situational and mission-related stress, at the same time eliciting potentially positive effects on performance. METHODS: Seven separate evaluations including a usability study, controlled experiments, and field evaluations have been conducted to date. RESULTS: These studies have shown that the SRTS program effectively engages users to manage their stress, effectively reduces stress symptoms, and improves job performance. CONCLUSIONS: The SRTS system is a highly effective method for individualized training to inoculate professionals against the negative consequences of stress, while teaching them to harness its positive effects. SRTS is a technology that can be widely applied to many professions that are concerned with well-being. We discuss applications to law enforcement, athletics, personal fitness and healthcare in the Appendix.
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Resilience training and interventions, primarily those focused on coping skills and self-efficacy, can support a decrease in psychological distress and symptoms of PTSD.
“Evidence illustrates that resilience training and interventions, primarily those focused on coping skills and self-efficacy, can work to support a decrease in psychological distress and symptoms of PTSD [13-16].”
There was an observed lack of social connectedness components within the apps reviewed.
“there was an observed lack of social connectedness components within the apps reviewed [14,23,36,46].”
Additional mentoring or coaching may contribute to greater elaboration on techniques introduced within apps and may enable the transfer of skills from the app experience.
“Additional mentoring or coaching may also contribute to a greater elaboration on techniques introduced within apps and may enable the transfer of skills from the app experience [14].”
Using mHealth apps with support as supplementary resources rather than primary treatment may enhance therapeutic outcomes and allow users more autonomy in tracking symptoms and sharing results with providers.
“Evidence further indicates that using mHealth apps with support as supplementary resources, rather than primary treatment, may enhance therapeutic outcomes and allow users more autonomy in their ability to track symptoms while sharing results with their providers [14,30,43].”
In much of the literature, gamification and integration of social components strengthened mHealth app use and engagement, resulting in more positive outcomes and increased peer support for MMs and PSP.
“In much of the literature, gamification and the integration of social components strengthened mHealth app use and engagement, resulting in more positive outcomes and an increased sense of peer support for the MMs and PSP populations [14,36,46]”
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- Authors
- de Visser, E. J., Dorfman, A., Chartrand, D., Lamon, J., Freedy, E., & Weltman, G.
- Venue
- Work
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-07-05
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 351-366
- ISSN
- 1051-9815 (ISSN-L)
- 1875-9270
- OpenAlex
- W2416364643
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2019: 4
- FWCI
- 2.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Work (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- stress resilience, stress management training, military personnel, stress coping, employee performance, individualized training, stress inoculation training, occupational stress, law enforcement, athletes, healthcare workers
- MeSH terms
- Formative Feedback, Adaptation, Psychological, Attitude, Humans, Military Personnel, Stress, Psychological, User-Computer Interface, Video Games, Internet, Resilience, Psychological, Sense of Coherence, Mobile Applications
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