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Psychological resilience is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. [1]The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.
The U.S. surgeon general's report on child mental health is bleak. Here is expert advice on how parents can help kids improve their mental health amid pandemic.
The term resilience gradually changed definitions and meanings, from a personality trait [4] [5] to a dynamic process of families, individuals, and communities. [2] [6] Family resilience emerged as scholars incorporated together ideas from general systems theory perspectives on families, family stress theory, and psychological resilience ...
And as much as I feel disoriented in this new normal, I know my kids are feeling it too. Take today, when Tess begged me to go to the grocery store, the only place she knows Mommy and Daddy have ...
Fortunately, the slope is not nearly as slippery as we fear. There are a lot of ways to help kids develop resilience besides requiring them to stick long-term to something that no longer fits them ...
Emmy E. Werner (1929 – October 12, 2017) [1] was an American developmental psychologist known for her research on risk and resilience in children. Early life [ edit ]
These are called resiliency factors. Research regarding children who showed adaptive development while facing adversity began in the 1970s and continues to this day. [46] Resilience is defined as “the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances."
As more children emerge from the pandemic grappling with mental health issues, their parents are seeking ways for them to build emotional resilience. While still in its early phase, a growing ...