FRHD 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Developmental Psychopathology, Reform School, Language Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 4400
• Professor: Andrea Buchholz

Document Summary

2 elements to resilience: threat, posiive adaptaion. Masten"s deiniion: the capacity of a dynamic system to adapt successfully to disturbances that threaten system funcions. Stole from age 6, arrested 16 imes including bank robbery: what would be the top two things to examine to try to explain diferences in leon"s & Mentors and aciviies they are involved in. The boys reasons for why they did what they did. These explanaions are your own theory of resilience already. We have it in all of us to try to adapt and overcome problems ability to bounce back from challenges. Examining persons within context what you would want to look at. Connecing levels of analysis diferent disciplines coming together to come up with ideas. You cannot tell who succeed in rehabilitaion/resilience programs. There is much that can cause a person to go down the wrong path, but we don"t know what causes people to want to turn their lives around.