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Resilience under conditions of extreme stress: a multilevel perspective What did you find most interesting about this article/chapter? The thing I found the most interesting about the article was that there were different factors that promoted resilience for disadvantaged maltreated children vs non maltreated children. For maltreated children personality was a big predictor of resilience and non-maltreated children it was positive relationships with adult caregivers. It makes sense because maltreated children might not have adults in their lives that they can form positive relationships with but it seems a kind of unfair that these children have to rely on themselves. I also thought it was interesting that the left hemisphere of the brain was linked with positive emotions while the right hemisphere was linked with negative emotions. Positive emotion regulation is a resilience promoting factor so I think it’s interesting how much the development of resilience relies on just the left half of the brain. What questions came up for you as you read this? Describe what you wanted to know more about. The end of the article talked about whether the timing of resilience promoting interventions matters or not. Is it better to provide interventions as early as possible or to provide them closer to when a traumatic event occurs. I think it would always be helpful to start promoting resilience in kids as young as possible, but would it actually be more effective to equip kids with skills to deal with trauma as things come up. How do you think you can use this information in your future studies or future work? I think it would be helpful in my future work to know about the large variety of effects prolonged stress can have on the body. Prolonged stress can change the brain system, organ system, emotions, mood, personality, and behavior. I think knowing how many different effects prolonged stress can have will be helpful as I work with kids because there might be something that I can do to decrease their stress. There is also a quote in the article about it being more important to promote resilience in early development rather than implementing treatment for repair after trauma has already happened. I think there is a lot that I will be able to do to help promote resilience in young people if I am working with them because just having a positive, supportive relationship with an adult can help. What information from this article do you think would be most helpful for families? Please explain why. I think it would be helpful if families knew about the factors that promote resilience. One of the factors is having a close relationship with a caring adult and I think if we let parents know about this, they would think more intentionally about building a positive relationship with their kids. Parents can also do things with their children to promote
self-regulation, positive views of self, and positive friendships. I have seen some parents on social media provide daily affirmations to their kids and I think something like that can actually go a long way in promoting resilience.
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