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Childhood Resilience And Domestic Violence

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Resilience is the ability to maintain healthy or successful functioning or the adaptation within the context of significant adversity or threat. Children and teenagers experiencing domestic violence can suffer lasting effects. It is important to note that not all children are affected in the same way, they can heal and go on to thrive meaning they are resilient. There are a number of risk and protective factors that the children, family or community that can impact the ways dictating how the children process and understand when exposed violence (Bowen, 2015). Protec¬tive factors act as "primitive" factors that have the potential to build family strengths and a family environment promoting optimal child development. Risk factors, on the other
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