Question:

Prilletensky (2001) spoke with one of the advisers from a qualitative study who said that “an important protective factor for high-risk children and youth is having a sense that there was something…something as nebulous as hope that things could be better in the future, a belief that they could do something that would make things better for themselves.” Do you believe that resilience is an innate characteristic, or rather something that children learn throughout the early years of development?