Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience: Implications for Marginalized and Vulnerable Young People

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience: Implications for Marginalized and Vulnerable Young People
Scott B. Harpin
Journal of Adolescent Health, January 2019 Volume 64, Issue 1, p1-140
Editorials
Excerpt
This month’s Journal of Adolescent Health features a fascinating and innovative study by epidemiologists Clements-Nolle and Waddington [1], examining the roles that resilience and youth assets play in mitigating emotional distress for youth in two U.S. juvenile corrections systems. This piece brings together an amalgam of youth development concepts in a manner that elegantly explains their positive power in the lives of marginalized youth. While significant findings of the protective buffering of resilience among teens are not new to adolescent research—as pointed out by the authors—the strength of these findings among a large sample of our most vulnerable adolescents is very important for those of us working with similar populations of young people. The unifying factor is how youth are getting through their days having lived through any number of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)… _