Adult support during childhood: A retrospective study of trusted adult relationships, sources of personal adult support, and their association with childhood resilience resources
Published on: 27th June 2021
Authors: Kathryn Ashton, Alisha Davies, Karen Hughes, Kat Ford, Mark Bellis, Andrew Cotter-Roberts
Reference type: Journal
Summary:
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can affect health and well-being across the life course. Resilience is an individual characteristic that is known to help negate the effect of adversities and potentially transform toxic stress into tolerable stress. Having access to a trusted adult during childhood is critical to helping children build resiliency. This paper aims to understand the relationship between always having access to trusted adult support and childhood resilience resources, and examine which sources of personal adult support and the number of sources of adult support, best foster childhood resilience.