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The Resilience Scale: Using Metaphor to Communicate a Developmental Perspective on Resilience

How can we talk about resilience in a way that disrupts people's assumption that it's all about inner strength and just a matter of "bouncing back?"
Author(s)
Nathaniel Kendall-Taylor
Published
May 9, 2012
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This report presents “The Resilience Scale” as an explanatory metaphor that helps people reason about the concept of resilience: why some children end up OK in the face of negative experiences and environments early on in life. Helping the public to understand the processes of resilience is a key part of telling the core story of Early Childhood Development. The report details the results of an iterative methodology undertaken to design and test this explanatory metaphor.

Issues
Child and Adolescent Development Education Equity Families Poverty Substance Use and Addiction
Countries
United States

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