Resilience and hearing impairment

Historically، the prevailing view about hearing impaired people may focus primarily on their disability، which leads to a sense of inadequacy and failure in these individuals. But recent views about hearing impaired people focuses on positive psychology، mental health issues، and their ability and competence to manage their independent living، which all are linked to the concept of resilience. This study provided an overview of resilience in the hearing impaired. In order to review the concept of resilience in the hearing impaired patients، we used PubMed، Elsevier، ProQuest and Google scholar database and text books in the field of hearing impairment between years of 1979 to 2013، Using “resilience”، “hearing impairment” and “deaf” as keywords. Resilience is a dynamic process in human development which is interaction with one’s personality and environmental factors. This process is not a fixed feature and can change and be improved. Protective factors of resilience are individual، familial or environmeal which can be used as starting points to design and implement clinical interventions for impaired hearing people and their families.