Risk and Resilience

Adaptations in Changing Times

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Paperback | 17 March 2006

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What factors enable individuals to overcome adverse childhoods and move on to rewarding lives in adulthood? Drawing on data collected from two of Britain's richest research resources for the study of human development, the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study, this 2006 book investigates the phenomenon of 'resilience' - the ability to adjust positively to adverse conditions. Comparing the experiences of over 30,000 individuals born twelve years apart, Schoon examines the transition from childhood into adulthood and the assumption of work and family related roles among individuals born in 1958 and 1970 respectively. The study focuses on academic attainment among high and low risk individuals, but also considers behavioural adjustment, health and psychological well-being, as well as the stability of adjustment patterns in times of social change. This is a major work of reference and synthesis, that makes an important contribution to the study of lifelong development.

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'Much previous work on resilience has been American: it was therefore with great interest that I read this important book based on work done in Britain. It is large scale and its conclusions are authoritative and robust ... I think that it is required reading for all psychologists working with children.' The Psychologist 'This is a scholarly and thoughtful book ... There is a particularly thorough discussion of the definitions of the concepts of risk and resilience and a highly readable review of the theoretical perspectives, ... Indeed, the first two chapters are so well done they should constitute essential reading for all behavioural scientists, mental health practitioners and those involved in forming health and education policy. ... The final two chapters on conclusions, outlook and implications for interventions and social policy are as thoughtful and clear as the introduction, with a particularly helpful analysis focusing on the importance of available social and educational resources as well as delineating risks. ... This is an excellent academic text that should be essential reference reading for mental health professionals. For researchers in the field of risk and resilience I would deem it fundamental. Psychiatrists-in-training should have access also as they would learn a great deal about the value of longitudinal, non-experimental studies' British Journal of Psychiatry

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List of figures	p. x
List of tables	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Risk and resilience: definitions	p. 5
Why does the study of resilience matter?	p. 5
Conceptualising resilience	p. 6
Central assumptions in resilience research	p. 7
Identifying risk	p. 8
Positive adjustment	p. 11
Risk and protection	p. 14
Critique of the resilience concept	p. 15
Conclusion	p. 17
Towards a developmental-contextual systems model of adjustment	p. 18
Multiple levels of influence	p. 19
Ecological approaches in the study of resilience	p. 19
Structural-organisational perspectives of human development	p. 20
Self-active developing systems	p. 21
The life course as organising principle	p. 22
A developmental-contextual model for the study of resilience	p. 25
Conclusion	p. 36
Persisting inequalities in times of social change	p. 37
Britain in international perspective	p. 39
The changing labour market	p. 40
Changing patterns of participation in education	p. 45
Partnership and parenthood	p. 49
Psychological well-being and health	p. 53
Conclusion	p. 55
Selection, causation and cumulative risk effects	p. 57
Theoretical perspectives	p. 58
Timing of risk experiences	p. 59
A developmental-contextual model of psychosocial adjustment	p. 60
Assessing socio-economic risk	p. 62
Inequalities in adjustment	p. 66
Pathways linking experiences of socio-economic adversity to individual adjustment	p. 66
Conclusion	p. 72
Protective factors and processes	p. 74
Models of resilience	p. 75
Focus on academic attainment in early childhood	p. 79
Modelling socio-economic risk and protective processes	p. 81
Modelling resilience processes	p. 84
Conclusion	p. 88
Stability of early adjustment over time	p. 94
Resilience: a dynamic state	p. 95
A person-centred approach to identify early academic resilience	p. 96
Long-term academic adjustment	p. 97
Long-term behavioural adjustment	p. 101
Adult psychosocial adjustment	p. 104
Adult employment status	p. 107
Partnership and family formation	p. 108
Individual life stories	p. 110
Conclusions	p. 117
Personal goals and life plans	p. 122
Changing life plans and aspirations	p. 123
Achievement orientations among British teenagers born in 1958 and 1970	p. 124
Moderating influence of achievement orientations	p. 130
Academic resilience in the face of social risk: specificity of effects	p. 132
Predicting adult social status	p. 134
Conclusions	p. 136
Conclusions and outlook	p. 139
Risk and risk processes	p. 139
Adjustment as development in context	p. 143
Methodological considerations	p. 149
Future directions of research	p. 153
Implications of findings for interventions and social policy	p. 157
Focus on risk	p. 158
Focus on resources	p. 159
Implications for interventions	p. 160
Conclusion	p. 168
Two British birth cohorts	p. 170
Response rates and handling of missing data	p. 177
Description of variables used in the study	p. 181
References	p. 190
Index	p. 216
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