title: The role of self-understanding in resilient individuals: the development of a perspective.
abstract: Three studies are reviewed in which an in-depth life-history approach was used, and in which a strong connection was demonstrated between self-understanding and resilience. Subjects were civil rights workers in the South, survivors of childhood cancer, and adolescents whose parents had serious affective disorders. Dimensions of the concept of self-understanding which are evident in all three investigations are explored, and the study of resilience as part of an integrative approach to the understanding of human behavior is outlined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Boston.
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Beardslee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D002961:Civil Rights; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D012649:Self Concept