Understanding resilience in Irish helping professionals.

One in five individuals will experience depression or other mental health difficulty in their lifetime (WHO, 2003). Approximately 500 Irish people each year commit suicide (CSO, 2015). These people are our siblings, parents, friends and children. This is a Clinical Psychology Doctoral study. It is investigating factors that contribute to the resilience of Irish individuals. Your contribution will help to increase our understanding of these issues in the Irish population. Any individual who works or volunteers with homelessness, addiction, abuse, policing, emergency response, trauma-counselling or other area involving exposure to upsetting events are invited to part-take in the study. The survey will take approximately 20-25mins to complete. Please answer honestly without taking too long or thinking too much about any one answer.