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The Research on Resilience
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The Research on Resilience:
Sometimes when people talk about human resilience, they’re talking about adapting in the face of major adversity or trauma. The science emerged after World War II, during which time so many children were victimized, orphaned, and displaced. In War and Children, one of the first volumes written in the aftermath, psychologists Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham noted that children rarely showed “traumatic shock” when a parent was present during the adverse event, and that caregivers’ responses were important for children’s responses.
Freud and Burlingham directed the Hampstead War Nurseries, providing British children, many of whom had lost their homes to German bombs, with residential care and comparative safety. While the staff did their best to protect the vulnerable children, they soon discovered that children’s separation from their families could be scarier than the Blitz.
Freud and Burlingham observed, “The war acquires comparatively little significance for children so long as it only threatens their lives, disturbs their material comfort, or cuts their food. It becomes enormously significant the moment it breaks up family life and uproots the first emotional attachments of the child with the family group.” Freud and Burlingham’s findings have been replicated again and again. This is why even the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics...
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