The social determinants of resilience: A conceptual framework to integrate psychological and policy research.

ABSTRACT: The psychological study of resilience has increasingly underscored the need for children and families to access material and psychological resources to positively adapt to significant stress. Redistributive policies-policies that downwardly reallocate society's social and economic resources-can offer economically disadvantaged families sustained access to these resources and mitigate the harmful impacts of adversity. This conceptual article builds upon and integrates insights from psychological and policy research to develop a unifying multilevel resilience framework, which we call the Social Determinants of Resilience. We examine four U.S. redistributive policies that have been extensively studied for their effects on child and family outcomes as case studies: (1) Medicaid expansion; (2)

SUBMITTER: Last BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889538 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature