Resilient children possess certain qualities and/or ways of viewing themselves and the world that are not apparent in youngsters who have not been successful in meeting challenges and pressures. Resilient youngsters are able to translate this view, or mindset, into effective action. Resilient children are also hopeful and possess high self-worth. What contributes to this sense of hopefulness and self-worth? Resilient...

The Importance of Play In Children’s Learning. Play is the language of children and is crucial to their development. Childrenof guiding a child through learning experiences by using language to help create the thought concepts needed to meet challenges. Mediated learning experiences provide a range of resources a child might use to solve problem without explicitly telling them how to solve the...

Long before the advent of the positive movement in psychology, researchers were interested in what makes people happy. The concept of health is more than the mere absence of illness: it contains mental and social well-being. Debates around the importance of genetic disposition, material possessions, social relationships, family support have surrounded the concept of happiness. More recently concepts...

In keeping with the concept of resilience as the capacity to bounce back from stressful experiences, three studies using college students (Tugade and Fredrickson, 2004) provide empirical evidence for this theory. They demonstrate the use of positive emotions to rebound from stress and to find positive meaning in stressful encounters. In the adult literature it has been demonstrated that positive emotions...

Berdasarkan Grotberg (1995: 15) ada tiga kemampuan atau tiga faktor resiliensi yang membentuk resiliensi. Untuk dukungan eksternal dan sumber-sumbernya, digunakan istilah ‘I Have’. Untuk kekuatan individu, dalam diri pribadi digunakan istilah ‘I Am’, sedangkan untuk kemampuan interpersonal digunakan istilah’I Can’. I Have Faktor I Have merupakan dukungan eksternal dan sumber dalam meningkatkan...