Resilience is not the Absence of PTSD any More than Health is the Absence of Disease

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Towards a Quantifiable Measure of Resilience (2013, background): “Similarly, resilience is not simply about change (loss) in assets, it is also about individual’s psychological stress following a disaster (Almedom and Glandon 2007); and about the role of reciprocal (informal) risk management mechanisms in helping individual households recovering more rapidly and…”
Annual Research Review: Positive adjustment to adversity -Trajectories of minimal-impact resilience and emergent resilience (2012, unknown): “To put this more succinctly, in the words of Almedom and Glandon (2007), defining resilience as the absence of a disorder is akin to defining health as the absence of disease.”
Resilience to loss and potential trauma. (2011, background): “Put another way, defining resilience as the absence of a disorder is akin to defining health as the absence of disease (Almedom & Glandon 2007) and does little to advance our understanding of genuinely resilient outcomes.”
The Temporal Elements of Psychological Resilience: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Individuals, Families, and Communities (2015, unknown): “(Almedom & Glandon, 2007; Carpenter, Walker, Anderies, & Abel, 2001).”