🔑 Key Definitions
Resilience: The ability to bounce back from adversity and maintain psychological well-being 💪🌊
PYDP: Positive Youth Development Perspective - views all youth as having potential for positive growth 🌱👶
Developmental Assets: Internal and external resources that promote healthy development 🏗️💫
PYDP: Positive Youth Development Perspective - views all youth as having potential for positive growth 🌱👶
Developmental Assets: Internal and external resources that promote healthy development 🏗️💫
👤 Important Figures
- Emmy Werner - 40-year Kauai longitudinal study on resilience 📊
- George Vaillant - Harvard Study of Adult Development, identified 6 tasks of aging 🎓
🧠 Key Terms
- Kauai Longitudinal Study - 1955 birth cohort, tracked 698 infants over 40 years
- 40 Developmental Assets - Search Institute framework for youth development
- Harvard Study of Adult Development - Longest running study of adult life
📋 Vaillant's 6 Tasks of Aging
- 1. Caring for others 🤲
- 2. Being open to new ideas 🔓
- 3. Keeping social utility 👥
- 4. Maintaining integrity 💎
- 5. Feeling wisdom 🦉
- 6. Experiencing spirituality 🙏
💡 Exam Tips
- Remember Werner's study: 1 in 3 high-risk children became successful adults 📊
- Know all 6 of Vaillant's tasks of aging in order 📋
- PYDP focuses on STRENGTHS not deficits ✅