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The European Cultural Foundation has conceived an ambitious project: by means of interdisciplinary studies on an international basis it is setting out to "forecast" the future of Europe in the year 2000 in four major fields of human development (education, industrialization, urbanization and the transformation of rural society). In this sense "forecasting" implies defining what is inevitable in the future of this civilization, and identifying the choices open to Europeans in so far as they are free to exert their collective will to influence the future. I should like here to pay due tribute to the Secretary General of the Foundation, Mr. George Sluizer, who had the boldness to launch this initiative, the drive and perseverence to mobilize sufficient funds to carry it into effect, and the clear-sightedness to devise bodies and procedures that could serve as a flexible and effective framework for the development-necessarily aleatory-of such a large-scale project ... A udaces fortuna juvat. Our friend Sluizer must often have modelled his attitude on that of his great compatriot, William the Silent, thinking to himself: "It is not necessary to hope in order to act, nor to succeed in order to persevere". If this maxim was good enough to forge a nation, it can also serve our purposes to-day.
List of contents
Why Study Resilience?.- Resilience Processes in Development.- Understanding the Concept of Resilience.- Resilience in Gene-Environment Transactions.- Sustaining and Reframing Vulnerability and Connection.- Relational Resilience in Girls.- What Can we Learn about Resilience from Large-Scale Longitudinal Studies.- Measuring Resilience in Children.- Poverty in Childhood amd Adolscence.- Family Violence and Parent Psycholpathology.- Families as Contexts for Children's Adaptation.- Resiliency in Maltreated Children.- Resilience and the Disruptive Disorders of Childhood.- From Helplessness to Optimism.- Resilience and the Child with Learning Disabilities.- Resilience and Self-Control Impairment.- Positive Adaptation, Resilience, and the Developmnt Asset Framework.- The Power of Parenting.- Building Educational Oppurtunity.- Building Resilience in All Children.- Resilience through Violence Prevention in Schools.- Enhancing the Process of Resilience through Effective Thinking.- The Future of Children Today.
