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Situating Resilience in Developmental Context

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In this chapter, the authors link the theory of resilience to principles of general development and show that resilience is similar to other outcomes. They show that the “hierarchical” or “cumulative” feature of human development is particularly relevant to the study of resilience, with adaptation over time being the product of a child’s current circumstances and the supports and challenges that are present. They show that when children overcome adversity or recover following exposure to trauma, their success is the result of earlier positive supports and experiences of positive adaptation.

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  1. Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Laura M. Supkoff & Jennifer Puig

  2. Institute of Child Development and Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    L. Alan Sroufe

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Supkoff, L.M., Puig, J., Sroufe, L.A. (2012). Situating Resilience in Developmental Context. In: Ungar, M. (eds) The Social Ecology of Resilience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0586-3_12

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