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How Do Refugee Teens Build Resilience? [NPR.org]

 

What does it mean to be resilient — to be able to face trauma and get through it?

You're resilient if you're like a stick of bamboo — able to bend with the winds rather than break in half. That's how psychologists like to explain it.

But in different cultures, the source of that strength can be very different. That's the finding in a study published in the journal Child Development. The researchers interviewed Syrian tweens and teens who had been displaced because of war.



[For more of this story, written by Maanvi Singh, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/go...ens-build-resilience]

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