title: Building resilience with the Stress Resilience Training System: Design validation and applications.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: Ewart J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: de Visser
authors.forename: Alix
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dorfman
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chartrand
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lamon
authors.forename: Elan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Freedy
authors.forename: Gershon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Weltman
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001290:Attitude; D000068156:Formative Feedback; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D063731:Mobile Applications; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018910:Video Games / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Coherence; coping; individualized methods; performance