Clients who are chronically ill need to be handled differently by the therapist according to how resilient they are. Psychologist Albert Bandura (1925 – 2021) was the first to believe in people’s resilience and that concept is now being proven (Southwick, Bonanno, Masten, Panter-Brick & Yehuda, 2014). These researchers and Bandura proposed that resilience is defined as healthy and adaptive positive functioning following a personal disaster, like chronic illness. The aspect of resilience in an individual’s personality traits is, I think, vitally important when it comes to counseling. People who are resilient are going to be naturally more optimistic and positive than those who are not. In my experience volunteering with the chronically ill, those people who are not resilient and are relying on others including the government, to take care of them, succumb to death much more quickly than those who stay optimistic and positive. Resilience is possible, even for the chronically ill. Who can you think of who is chronically ill, but is positive and resilient?