Friday, August 5, 2011

Resilience & Risk

Rutter (1987) argued that resilience results from a successful engagement with risk, rather than the evasion of risk.

Many researchers have agreed that resilience occurs only with exposure to risk and adversity (e.g. Cicchetti and Toth 1998, Dekovic 1999, Luthar et al. 2000a, 2000b, Masten 1999).

From Family Resilience and Good Child Outcomes: A Review of the Literature, a New Zealand Report by Ariel Kalil  

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