Article
selection was conducted through using
the key words— Human ecology AND childhood trauma OR maltreatment AND
resilience* AND developmental effects AND bio social ecological model AND
Bronfenbrenner in the following databases: Academic Search Complete, ERIC,
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, SocINDEX with Full Text, Google
Scholar and E-Journals. The early resilience research began after WWII, and so
was connected to attachment and effects of war on children, but several
articles connected to prison inmate populations and returning veterans, those
suffering from PTSD as a result of deployment or prison violence, so I narrowed
search criteria to exclude these populations.
As a result, I added limiters---NOT military, NOT prison, NOT terrorism,
using the dates---2013-2014, peer reviewed journals only. My purpose was to define
and explore resilience factors in adult survivors of child trauma, excluding
children studied in connection with large-scale trauma, focusing on those who
experienced childhood maltreatment or abuse yet who later in life exhibited
resilience characteristics and relative life success, narrowing dates for the
most up to date research for current populations.