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Resilience in psychology refers to the idea of an individual's tendency to cope with stress and adversity. Resilience is a dynamic process whereby individuals exhibit positive behavioral adaptation when they encounter significant adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress.

Resilience describes people who are expected to adapt successfully even though they experience risk factors that ‘stack the odds’ against them experiencing good development. Risk factors are related to poor or negative outcomes. For example, poverty, low socioeconomic status, and mothers with schizophrenia are coupled with lower academic achievement and more emotional or behavioral problems. Risk factors may be cumulative, carrying additive and exponential risks when they co-occur. When these risk factors happen, according to a study conducted on children, resilient children are capable of resulting in no behavioural problems and developing well. Additionally, they are more active and socially responsive. (more Wikipedia)

Boris Cyrulnik (birth 1937 in Bordeaux) is a French doctor, ethologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist. Being of Jewish origin, both his parents were arrested and murdered during World War II. He studied medicine at the University of Paris. He wrote several books of popular science on psychology. He is known in France for developing and explaining to the public the concept of Psychological resilience. (more Wikipedia)

Other websites on the subject of resilience
Resilience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CSwAKkaRaU&feature=related
Studying resiliency in children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNimix56mHM
A Story for the People of Uganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drzdbd48k8k