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Using Protective Factors in Practice
Author(s) -
SHAPIRO VALERIE B.,
LEBUFFE PAUL A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1376.048
Subject(s) - mental health , psychological resilience , psychology , resilience (materials science) , promotion (chess) , social emotional learning , discipline , health promotion , applied psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , social psychology , public health , nursing , psychiatry , sociology , political science , social science , physics , politics , law , thermodynamics
There are many advantages of using resilience as a framework to guide the screening, assessment, and promotion of social–emotional health in children. This article reviews which individual attributes are most important for the resilience of elementary school‐age children, as primarily determined by the positive attribute's ability to discriminate between typically developing children and those with disciplinary, mental health, and/or special education referrals or services. This research lends itself to a practical framework to scientifically measure and utilize individual social–emotional strengths for the purposes of fostering resilience in all children.