title: "If you want to understand something, try to change it": Social-psychological interventions to cultivate resilience.
abstract: We argue that social psychology has unique potential for advancing understanding of resilience. An exciting development that illustrates this is the emergence of social-psychological interventions - brief, stealthy, and psychologically precise interventions - that can yield broad and lasting benefits by targeting key resilience mechanisms. Such interventions provide a causal test of resilience mechanisms and bring about positive change in people's lives.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Child Development and Education,University of Amsterdam,1001 NG Amsterdam,Netherlandse.brummelman@uva.nlhttp://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/b/r/e.brummelman/e.brummelman.html.
authors.forename: Eddie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brummelman
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,Stanford University,Stanford,CA 94305.gwalton@stanford.eduhttp://web.stanford.edu/~gwalton.
authors.forename: Gregory M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Walton
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders