Book review: The concept of resilience emerged about 40 years ago when psychologists considered the differing life trajectories of children exposed to similar traumatic life events and asked why some developed psychosocial pathology and some did not. It has since expanded to describe the adaptive responses to trauma across the human life span that usually maintain function but that can fail and result in conditions such as post–traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [source]
Brown, LM. (2013). Review: Resilience and Mental Health: Challenges Across the Lifespan. Occupational Medicine,63(5):383. doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqt043 Abstract.
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