Understanding Resilience in Adolescent Girls: A Mixed-Method Approach

Angela Gómez, Mary I. Armstrong, Roger A Boothroyd

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Abstract

Child resilience is viewed as the capacity to use internal and external resources to successfully master stage-specific developmental issues. Smith and Carlson (1997) concluded that resilience can be described in three ways: 1) equated with coping, defined as efforts to restore or maintain equilibrium in the presence of significant stress; 2) conceptualized as the ability to recover in the face of trauma; and 3) defined as protective factors or mechanisms that mediate the relationship between risk and competency.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalPracticing Anthropology
Volume27
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2005

Disciplines

  • Health Law and Policy
  • Law
  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Mental and Social Health
  • Psychiatric and Mental Health

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