Ladan believes that despite natural processes of aging, genetic disposition, as well as various social and
environmental stressors, our body and mind possess an innate
potential to heal.
Children reared in a high - quality caregiving ecology are set on a positive developmental path that has the
potential to produce long - term positive outcomes.68 Already vulnerable from the experiences of maltreatment and other
environmental risk factors (for example, poverty and its associated
stressors), the development of foster children is further compromised if they experience more trauma and instability while in care.