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Resilience in the face of adversity. Protective factors and resistance to psychiatric disorder.
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This article found that negative life experiences and stressful happenings may serve to precipitate mental disorders, and that a variety of stressors may play a role in the genesis of psychiatric disorder.Abstract:
Almost since the beginnings of psychiatric practice, there has been a recognition that negative life experiences and stressful happenings may serve to precipitate mental disorders (Garmezy & Rutter, 1985). Nearly 200 years ago, Pinel wrote about the psychiatric risks associated with unexpected reverses or adverse circumstances, and it is reported that his initial question to newly admitted psychiatric patients was: “Have you suffered vexation, grief or reverse of fortune?” Nevertheless, although an appreciation that a variety of stressors may play a role in the genesis of psychiatric disorder has a long history, the systematic study of such effects is much more recent.read more
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Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms.
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A Secure Base. Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development. New York (Basic Books) 1988.
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How people make their own environments: a theory of genotype greater than environment effects.
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TL;DR: A theory of development in which experience is directed by genotypes is proposed, which adapts the 3 kinds of genotype-environment correlations proposed by Plomin, DeFries, and Loehlin in a developmental model used to explain results from studies of deprivation, intervention, twins, and families.