by Evan Dwan | Dec 23, 2021 | News |
According to the United Nations, human resilience is about removing the barriers that hold people back in their freedom to act (Ryan and Waite, 2020). It is concerned with enabling disadvantaged and excluded groups to be active agents in shaping their destiny. A...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 22, 2021 | News |
Belsky (2019) defines resilient children as those who rebound from early life traumas to create successful lives. Developmentalists find that children who are resilient have a special talent, are good at regulating emotions, have high sense of self-efficacy, optimism...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
During adolescence the brain changes almost as rapidly as it does during infancy (Beckett and Taylor, 2019). During this period, like in the early years, synaptic pruning takes place in which neural pathways that are not reinforced disappear while those regularly used...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
Life span development highlights how and why people change over time (Berger, 2020). This approach takes into account all phases of life not just childhood or adulthood. It is important to understand that development is multidirectional – gains and losses occur at all...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
A ‘developmental issues’ framework is different from classic stage theories (Sroufe in Cassidy and Shaver, 2016). The issues described are not tasks that are passed or failed but each issue is negotiated in the process of development. Children develop patterns of...
