Promoting coping and resilience in
contexts of adversity is important.
Resilience research has identified several mechanisms by which protective and vulnerability factors operate to increase or decrease the probability of competence in
contexts of adversity, respectively.11 As noted previously, sensitive caregiving engenders adaptive neurobiological, behavioural, and cognitive organization in early childhood.4, 8 Thus, positive relationships contribute to resilient adaptation by promoting resources, such as self - esteem, self - efficacy and coping capacities.
As the expression of competence in
contexts of adversity, resilience is of great interest to researchers and practitioners in its own right, as well as for what it can tell us about development in contexts of security.
Whether in
contexts of adversity or security, early relationships form the foundation for cognitive, affective and neurobiological adaptation.2, 3,4 Whereas relational vulnerabilities engender distress and maladaptation, relational resources foster emotional health and competence.5, 6,7 In the context of safe and responsive relationships with caregivers and others, young children develop core regulatory and processing capacities that enable them to maximize developmental opportunities and effectively negotiate developmental challenges.
The goal of the study was to better understand how wisdom develops in
the context of adversity such as death of a loved one, divorce, health crisis, or loss of job.
Lyscha received her doctorate in developmental psychology from the Department of Human Development at Cornell University, where her graduate work focused on child development in
the context of adversity.
Not exact matches
Resilience and Vulnerability: Adaptation in the
Context of Childhood
Adversities.
Individuals may value and interpret experiences, including presumed
adversities, very differently as a function
of their developmental and / or cultural
context.
Even in
contexts of extreme
adversity, such as out -
of - home placement, supporting a positive caregiver - child relationship is vital to successful intervention in infancy and early childhood.24 To that end, several factors are central to support the relational roots
of resilience.
When examining suicidal behaviour, risk in the
context of childhood
adversity, sexual abuse, physical abuse and parental divorce emerged as significant risk factors for lifetime suicide attempts in the total sample.
Framing childhood
adversity in the
context of the physiologic stress response begins to explain the strong associations between adverse experiences in childhood and a wide array
of altered developmental outcomes and life - course trajectories.
In the
context of low
adversity, children who have a high reactivity to stress are actually more social and successful academically than their peers who have a low reactivity to stress.21 However, in the
context of high
adversity, children who have high reactivity to stress fair worse than their peers who have low reactivity to stress.21 Hence, the consequences
of high stress reactivity are contextual, with high reactivity promoting adaptive responses in the
context of low
adversity, but maladaptive responses in the
context of high
adversity.
The concept
of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process
of, capacity for, or outcome
of successful adaptation in the
context of risk or
adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range
of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits
of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use
of different types
of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood
of tobacco and alcohol use.
In M. Barnett (Chair), Influences on social - emotional development in the
context of parenting and socioeconomic
adversity across early childhood.
, Resilience and vulnerability: Adaptation in the
context of childhood
adversities (pp. 343 - 363).
The impact is likely to be more pernicious where the depressive episode is severe and prolonged, and where it occurs in the
context of personal and social
adversity.
Positive development interventions that promote family resilience (i.e., strengths
of the family system when under stress, in crisis, or overcoming
adversity) with pediatric populations must take into account the
context of the youth's developmental level (Luther, 2000), the stage or course
of the disease / chronic illness (Yi et al., 2008), and the bidirectional / dynamic nature
of interactions within the family (Walsh, 2003).
Biological sensitivity to
context: The interactive effects
of stress reactivity and family
adversity on socio — emotional behavior and school readiness