Resilience

Question 1

What is resilience according to Luther et al (2000)

Answer 1

the process of avoiding adverse outcomes or doing better than expected when confronted with major assaults on the developmental process
- assaults: poverty, war, personal trauma
OR
when an individual maintains adaptive behaviour in spite of serious risk factors

Question 2

What is a risk factor?

Answer 2

factors, either dispositional or environmental, that predispose an individual to not develop to their full potential which can had hindering effects on cognition, development, and physical health
- e.g collapse of family, belonging to a minority group, poverty

Question 3

What is a protective factor

Answer 3

Conditions/attributes (e.g. skills, resources, coping strategies) in individuals, families, communities, or the larger society that help people deal with stressful events
- e.g. intelligence, sociability, close relationship to parent

Question 4

What are the 3 most important factors in protection from damaging effects

Answer 4

• the temperament of the child
• close relationship with 1 parent (most imp.)
• social support in community

Question 5

How can resilience be cultivated in a child life

Answer 5

by cultivating protective factors to help them cope with the stressors or life

Question 6

Is resilience innate?

Answer 6

interaction of innate capacity and contextual factors (risk/protective)

Question 7

What hormone is researched in resilience (hint: it acts like a neurotransmitter)

Answer 7

neuropeptide Y (NPY
- inc. food intake
- reduce anxiety/stress
- works w/ amygdala, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and brainstem to reduce the stress response