EDUC373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Economic Mobility, Long-Term Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15 Oct 2018
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Its easy to keep going when vnothimh and nobody is in your way. Its the defects you build around the invasive, jagged shards that invade your life. Nearly 90% of the population has experience one of more traumatic event in their les, the lifetime prevalence of pst traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is 8% 70% f those exposed to traumatic events demonstrate resilience. Resilience is not the result of extraordinary character traits; it is the result of ordinary coping strategies. Chronic stress leads to major abnormalities in the brain and immune system. Masten (2018) when a person or a family manifests positive adaption (de ned by some criteria) in face of signi cant challenges, we infer that the individual or family had (and likely still has) the capability for resilience. Masten (2018) the capacity of a system to adapt successfully to signi cant challenges that threaten the function, viability, or development of the system.
