Child and Family Resilience: A Call for Integrated Science, Practice, and Professional Training

Masten, Ann S.; Monn, Amy R.

doi:10.1111/fare.12103

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“…Research with juvenile sex offenders found that they were more likely than juvenile non-sex offenders and juvenile non-delinquents to have fewer attachments to peers and school (Minor and Crimmins 1995). Using a resilience framework (Masten and Monn 2015), there is value, however, in conceptualizing these factors as protective against violence, controlling for the influence of other negative exposures, because this conceptualization can more readily inform prevention efforts. Resilience in this context refers to the capacity of an individual to successfully adapt to challenges and involves interplay with other influences (e.g., family, community) (Masten and Monn 2015).…”

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Protective Factors for Sexual Violence: Understanding How Trajectories Relate to Perpetration in High School

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Adolescent sexual violence (SV) perpetration is a significant public health problem. Many risk factors for perpetration are known, but less is known about what protects youth from perpetration, or how protective factors change over time. This longitudinal study reports trajectories of four potential protective factors for SV perpetration (empathy, parental monitoring, social support, and school belonging) across middle and high school and examines their relationship to SV perpetration in high school. Findings reveal that youth who identified as SV perpetrators had significantly lower mean empathy scores (d = − 0.18, 95 % CI [−0.26, −0.10]) and social support scores (d = − 0.05, 95 % CI [−0.14, −0.03]) at the beginning of middle school than non-perpetrators. We also found that youth who identified as SV perpetrators had a quicker deceleration in parental monitoring (slopes) and empathy from middle to high school, compared to non-perpetrators. Within-sex differences emerged; significant differences in slopes were detected for school belonging between male perpetrators and male non-perpetrators (Wald test = 3.76 (1), p = .05) and between female perpetrators and female non-perpetrators (Wald test = 3.95(1), p = .04). Significant differences in slopes for empathy between female perpetrators and female non-perpetrators (Wald test = 4.76(1), p = .03) were also detected. No differences were found between male and female SV perpetrators for either empathy or school belonging. These findings have implications for the content and timing of adolescent SV prevention efforts. Intervention in adolescence, involving parents and schools in a comprehensive, multi-level approach, may be effective in preventing SV perpetration.

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“…Yet resilience can be also inferred from evidence that the system is "likely" to respond well when given the resources and adaptive capabilities available to the system. Efforts to prepare individuals, families, communities, and other systems for anticipated challenges often have the goal of building system capacity for positive responses to disturbances [15]. For the purpose of the present study, resilience will be defined as the tendency to overcome factors that place one at risk for psychological dysfunction and to adjust positively in the aftermath of a potentially traumatic event [16].…”

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War Trauma, Anxiety, and Resilience among University Students in the Gaza Strip

Thabet¹,

Sultan²

2017

Clinical Psychiatry

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The aims of this study were to identify the types of the traumatic experiences, to find the type of resilience factors, anxiety trait and state occurrence, and to determine the relationship between exposure to the traumatic experiences, resilience and trait and state among university students. It is a descriptive analytical study; the sample consisted of randomly selected 399 university students enrolled in the main four universities in Gaza Strip (Al-Aqsa, Al-Azhar, Al-Quds Open and Islamic University) at the second semester of the academic year 2012-2013. We used five questionnaires to collect the data; a predesigned Sociodemographic sheet, Gaza Traumatic Events Checklist, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale.This study showed that the most commonly reported traumatic events were watching mutilated bodies on TV (92.7%), witnessing the shelling and destruction of another's home (47.37%), witnessing firing by tanks and heavy artillery at neighbors' homes (47.12%), and being forced to move from home to a safer place during the war (42.86%). Mean total traumatic events was 4.72. Anxiety state mean was 46.62 and anxiety trait mean was 36.22. The most common resilience concepts (most of the time/all the time) were: God can help (91.7%), things happen for a reason (90.3%), and I am proud of my achievements (85.2%). Male students had significantly more total resilience, more personal competence and more trust in one's instincts than female students. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between total traumatic events and anxiety state and trait. The results showed that there was no significant correlation between total traumatic events and total resilience, but there was a positive significant correlation between total traumatic events and trust in one's instincts, tolerance of negative affect and strengthening effects. On the other hand, there was a significant correlation between total traumatic events and spiritual domain. There was a significant correlation between anxiety state and total resilience and its subscales except in spiritual dimension.Our conclusion was exposure to previous traumatic events due to Gaza war had long-term negative effects on Palestinian university students which increased their mental health problems. We recommend that students affair should show brief students the nature of the course, the institutional ethos, the subjects that they will be taught and aspects relating to assignments, examinations, evaluation and other academic requirements, and should also provide therapeutic interventions for university students who suffer from anxiety.

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“…More recently, Masten and Monn (2015) pointed to the importance of child and family resilience as an important consideration in contemporary discussions of adaptive behaviour. However, a review of the literature indicates few efforts to date to systematically integrate the theory, findings, and implications of these two areas.…”

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Horse Racing With Sheep Ankle Bones: The Play of Nomadic Children in Mongolia

Batsaikhan¹,

Kaye²

2017

J Child. Stud.

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<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The play activities of nomadic Mongolian children embrace an ancient traditional philosophy of life, connecting families to nature, respecting elders, and encouraging tenacity in daily life. This article discusses the context of this unique form of child play, its meaning, and its functional value. The major focus is on how these play activities have been communicated through centuries within themes of survival, lifestyle, and story. The article first reviews the cultural concept of play within discussions of adaptation, evolutionary process, and a culture-specific phenomenon, proceeds to examine how Mongolian traditional play encourages young children to be knowledgeable about nomadic values, and concludes with a discussion of how the context of the play of Mongolian nomadic children is situated within an understanding the concept of the ludic. </span></p></div></div></div></div>

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Child and Family Resilience: A Call for Integrated Science, Practice, and Professional Training

Cited by 248 publications

References 85 publications

Protective Factors for Sexual Violence: Understanding How Trajectories Relate to Perpetration in High School

Protective Factors for Sexual Violence: Understanding How Trajectories Relate to Perpetration in High School

War Trauma, Anxiety, and Resilience among University Students in the Gaza Strip

Horse Racing With Sheep Ankle Bones: The Play of Nomadic Children in Mongolia

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