Research points to the long-term consequences of high levels of childhood stress on later health and psychosocial development. However, it is also well documented that not all forms of adversity are ...

Resilience is defined as an ability to return to prior function after adversity or trauma. Victor G. Carrion, MD, says resilience “…is a physics term: it literally means that the spring bounces back ...

Scientists have been examining the relationship between childhood adversity, and psychiatric decline as well as adult adversity and psychiatric and cognitive decline. Saint Louis University associate ...

I recently came across an article written by Pendell (2021) titled “Younger Workers Have Had It Worse.” Although I have serious criticisms of many of the underlying claims [1], the title and the ...

Psychological resilience refers to the capacity of individuals to maintain or regain mental health despite experiencing adversity or stress. It encompasses dynamic interactions among biological, ...

In North American elementary and high-schools, Black and Indigenous students are disciplined through suspension and expulsion more often than their peers. These same groups of students are also more ...

Coping flexibility refers to an individual’s capacity to assess the effectiveness of a chosen coping strategy, relinquish it when it proves ineffective, and deploy an alternative approach tailored to ...