You can help foster resilience to piracy We can help seafarers
be more resilient to pirate attacks. This is the view of Dr.
Michael Stuart Garfinkle of SCI who has published the first
clinical study of piracy’s effect on seafarers. Better
coordination to enhance resilience, identifying resources
available to seafarers and improved access to those resources
would go a long way to reduce seafarers’ suffering from the
long-term effects of trauma, he said. In an article published by
the Seamen’ s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey,
Garfinkle writes: Maritime piracy represents the single greatest
risk to the seafaring community—not because of its prevalence,
but because of the potential magnitude of traumatic experience.
Resilience describes how we get through the stressors of
everyday life, how we survive tragedy and how we recover from
traumatic experience. If we think of traumatic experiences as
those that interrupt our ability to think, disturb our feelings
and make us feel overwhelmed, resilience is