title: Cultivating resiliency in youth.
abstract: This paper highlights characteristics of resiliency and the importance of strengthening resiliency and how to build it. The neuropsychiatry of traumatic stress is underscored and more esoteric resiliency-building activities are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public and Community Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009484:Neuropsychology; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control*