RISK AND RESILIENCE

In the last twenty years, the increasing attention has been paid in th e psychological literature to persons who passed through the high ''ri sky'' environment in their childhood but who stay practically intact b y that. They use to be labeled as ''invincible'' or ''resilient''. The study sums up the knowledge concerning the mutual relation of risk an d resilience on the basis of data given by the psychological literatur e and on the basis of clinical experience and own long-term follow-up studies of children growing up in the less favourable psychosocial con ditions in the environment of own families or in the environment of no n-familiar collective care, i.e. in the children's homes.