Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: Examinations of risk and psychopathology across the life course all too often portray the developmental process as somewhat deterministic, resulting in maladaptive and adverse outcomes.Studies ranging from genetic and biological predispositions to pathology, to assaults on development associated with inadequate caregiving, graphically convey the multiplicity of risks that eventuate in psychopathology.Thus, it is especially refreshing to explore the more optimistic component of the psychopathology-risk equation, namely, resilience.What individual, familial, or societal factors stem the trajectory from risk to psychopathology, thereby resulting in adaptive outcomes even in the presence of adversity?It is the answer to this query that the contributors to this Special Issue of Development and Psychopathology have directed their energies toward elucidating.This Special Issue may well be a "first" in its presentation of a group of articles detailing research strategies and empirical findings that are focused on the construct of "resilience."Of course, a significant and il-
Source: Development and Psychopathology
Authors: Dante Cicchetti, Norman Garmezy
Institutions: University of Rochester, University of Minnesota
Language: English
Topic: Resilience and Mental Health
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2088996891