Essays on Adversity

Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; a toughness and strength that we use in hard times to get us through adversity. Resilience gives people the power to endure stress and hardship. It can be said that the more resilient a person is, the better they can rebuild after facing great adversity. They can handle adversity in ways that help them grow into stronger people. As in the case of the main character in Yoshimura’s Shipwrecks, the resilience…...

Unemployment and Poverty Unemployment is defined as works available for employees whose contract of employment has terminated or been temporarily suspended and who are without a job and seeking paid employment; persons never previously employed whose most recent status was other than that of an employee, together with persons who had been in retirement, who were available for work during the specified period and were seeking paid employment; persons without a job and currently available for workers who have made…...

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent disorders in childhood (National Institute of mental health [NIMH], 2009). In 2000, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev; DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000) stated 3%-7% of school-age youngsters were stricken by this disorder. More recently, results from a parent-report enclosed within the National Survey of Children’s Health in 2007 indicated the prevalence rate of the disorder was 9.5% percent for children aged 4-17 within the United States (US). The disorder commonly results from physiological variations within the brain that cause people to systematically display extreme hyperactivity and impetuousness. In several cases, inattentiveness was another symptom…...

This study focuses on how parents respond after their child experiences a trauma and the role the response plays in influencing the child responses, and how parenting styles change after child trauma. Researchers found participants for this study by posting letters of invitation throughout the community, local service providers, and using a professional survey company. Key Findings Parents usually blame themselves after a trauma because they believe they did not do enough to protect the child from dealing with the…...

Experiences during infancy and early childhood are believed to play a crucial and unique role in organizing children’s neurobiological development. Specifically, experiences within early attachment relationships are expected to assist with regulating the diurnal functioning of the hypothalamic-adrenocortical (HPA) axis (Koss, Hostinar, Donzella & Gunnar, 2014). The HPA axis is an important component of the neuroendocrine system and involves communication between the hypothalamus, anterior pituitary and adrenal cortex. When a person experiences stress, the HPA axis becomes activated and beings…...