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The definition of resiliency above, states that resiliency is the experience of risk and the ability to thrive despite the risks. It is a child’s environment that provides the risk. Shean (2015) summarizes risk factors: low socioeconomic status, poverty, abuse, trauma, lack of relationships, and low academic outcomes. In addition, Shean (2015) highlights the risk factors that stem from family life such as parental discord, criminality, mental health, and age as well as large families or overcrowded families. Condly (2006) highlights that risks can be multifaceted and can occur as a short period of trauma or occur over a life time. All of tThese factors create risks and challenges that children need to deal with for either a short period of time or over the course of their life. …show more content…

Likewise, the child’s environment can also play a role through protective factors. Sheam (2015) summarizes protective factors as strong family relationships, higher SES, family stability, and self-efficacy. Condly (2006), highlights that access and availability to services that support risks like poverty and family discord are also environmental protective factors. Protective factors can have significant influence on a child’s ability to be resilient.
Researchers are in agreementagree that risk factors and protective factors are not bipolar which is a concept I did not completely understand at first. I then looked at these risks and protective factors through the lens of Bronfenbrenner ecological systems theory, in which a child’s development is influenced by different environmental systems, it is clear that the environment plays a complex role in the development of resiliency (Bronfenbrenner, 1986). Furthermore, there are two different aspects of the environment that affect resilience; the risk factors and the protective factors (Condly, 2006; Shean,

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