title: Introduction to the special issue on resilience.
abstract: This article introduces this special issue on resilience by briefly reviewing its history and how contemporary researchers and theorists deliberate it today. Resilience, as a concept, emerged primarily from the work of Norman Garmezy, Emmy Werner, and Ruth Smith. It has transformed the field and shifted research, theory, and practice paradigms to a focus on strengths rather than deficits.
authors.affiliation: Research Center on Children and Youth, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214-3072, USA. jj44@buffalo.edu
authors.forename: Jeannette L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Shelly A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Wiechelt
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology; D010553:Personality Development; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D009626:Terminology as Topic