"Graceful Failure": The Privatization of Resilience."

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013

The central mission of resilience research is to use scholarship to derive "critical ingredients" for effective intervention. Resilience is the process of harnessing biological, psychosocial, structural, and cultural resources to sustain wellbeing.

Journal of Counseling & Development, 1996

Current research suggests that a majority of at-risk youths do not experience drastic outcomes, but many exhibit protective factors that buffer them from negative consequences. Longitudinal studies from Hawaii, the continental United States, and Great Britain have identified several personality, familial, and environmental variables that promote resiliency in youths at risk. This article discusses these variables and provides counselors with an assessment technique and strategies to promote a salutogenesis perspective.

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Global Psychiatry, 2019

Life is full of stressors, which have to be confronted efficiently to grow up. However, reaction to stressors is personalized, complex and coordinated. Vulnerable persons adjust poorly to stressors and express inappropriate responses, while resilient persons practice adaptive physiological and psychological responses. Promotion of resiliency is an intricated issue, which demands strategies at both macro and micro-level. Microlevel strategies are focused on the community, family and individual level, while macrolevel strategies formulate the principles. Nevertheless, prediction of vulnerability and resiliency is really a challenge, as different persons facing same stressors react differently. Some are growing as resilient and others as vulnerable. We aimed to discuss resiliency, vulnerability, importance in relation to health outcome, promotion of resiliency and controversies of vulnerability and resiliency.

Encyclopedia on Early Childhood …, 2005

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

The present chapter presents the concept of resilience based on person?s resources and that of social vulnerability as a context at risk for child development and especially for brain development. The characteristics of resilient children and the possibilities of generate those resources in all children at risk will be analyzed through the revision of two great works on resiliency developed in Latin America: that done by the Van Leer Foundation that involved four programs developed in three Andean zones (Chile, Peru and Argentina) and in the shantytowns in Maranhão, Brazil; and another developed with the support of CONICET and the Argentina Ministry of Science, Technology, and Productive Innovation , in children in high risk situations of urban marginality.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006

Although resilience is usually thought to reside in individuals, developmental research is increasingly demonstrating that characteristics of the social context may be better predictors of resilience. When the relative contribution of early resilience and environmental challenges to later child mental health and academic achievement were compared in a longitudinal study from birth to adolescence, indicators of child resilience, such as the behavioral and emotional self-regulation characteristic of good mental health, and the cognitive self-regulation characteristic of high intelligence contributed to later competence. However, the effects of such individual resilience did not overcome the effects of high environmental challenge, such as poor parenting, antisocial peers, low-resource communities, and economic hardship. The effects of single environmental challenges become very large when accumulated into multiple risk scores even affecting the development of offspring in the next generation.