Resiliency
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A universal and innate human capacity, which can empower a child, adult, family, group, community, or business organization to prevent, minimize or overcome the damaging effects of adversity. Masten and Coatsworth (1998) define resilience as “manifested competency in the context of significant challenges to adaptation or development.”
Source: reproduced with the permission of the Government of Canada
added by
Burkhard Hasenpusch
German Congress on Crime Prevention (GCOCP)