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Family Process Influences On The Resilient Responses Of Youth, Monika Ingeborg Baege
Family Process Influences On The Resilient Responses Of Youth, Monika Ingeborg Baege
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The concept of resiliency, or how young people thrive in the face of adversity, brings a positive focus to youth development research and has emerged as an important topic in the youth development field. Adversity, or risk factors, may be internally or externally generated, and may acute or chronic. Researchers often point to the balance of between risk factors and protective factors as the determining influences on a child's resiliency. If protective factors in the layers of a child's world (such as self, family, school, and community) outweigh the risk factors, then a child will be resilient. However, questions remain …