Vocabulary
What is a person who specializes on problems of the mind?
A psychologist
A nine-year-old boy always came to school with this for lunch.
A bread sandwich (nothing inside)
One problem many children face is an unhappy home.
For example, one parent is sick and the other is ____________. (see par. 1)
absent
Environmental threats can come in various ways. Some are continuous.
Some
What do you call the condition of being very, very poor?
Poverty
Emmy Werner studied a group of 698 children from this island.
Kauai, Hawaii
Environmental threats include poverty, seeing a ___________ encounter or being in an accident.
(see par. 4)
violent
Resilient people tend to look at adversity differently. These people see obstacles as an opportunity for growth.
These people
This adjective describes an event that makes a person feel shock and emotional problems
Traumatic
Children who handled difficult situations the best believed their __________________ did not affect their achievements
circumstances
The _____________ of a close friend can be very sad.
(par. 8)
death
Events are not traumatic until we experience them as traumatic.
them
A human quality or part of one's character is...
A trait
George Bonanno has studied resilience for nearly _________ years
25
What happened to man on page 108?
He lost his home
From a young age, resilient chlidren tended to "meet the world on their own terms."
their own
This word describes a person who can recover quickly from a terrible event
Resilient
Bonanno believes resilience depends on how you ____________ an event - just bad or an opportunity to learn.
perceive
Some kinds of challenges are continuous while others are ____________ .
(see par.4)
acute
Though not especially gifted, these children used whatever skills they had effectively.
they