p.1 "The single most remarkable historical fact concerning the term 'stress' is its persistent, widespread
usage... in spite of almost chaotic disagreement over its definition" (Mason, 1975)... stress seems to apply equally
to a form of stimulus (or stressor), a force requiring change of adaption (strain), a mental state (distress), and a form
of bodily reaction or response (that is, Selye's general adaptation syndrome of stress).
p.2 The first issue, which perhaps may be thought to involve the notion of 'coping,' is that of individual
differences in children's responses to all manner of stressful events, happenings, and circumstances. As part of this general
topic, there has grown an increasing interest in the phenomenon of resilience, as shown by the young people
who 'do well,' in some sense in spite of having experienced a form of stress which in the population as a whole is known to
carry a substantial risk of an adverse outcome
p.34 Vulnerability and protective factors may serve as catalysts in increasing or decreasing the
likelihood of a maladaptive outcome.
p.49 Children with a potential for mental disorder which fails to be actualized can provide those clues
to 'protective' factors that enhance resilience in both normal and high risk children [JLJ - in a similar fashion, game positions
where an opponent's stress fails to result in future positions of advantage can likewise be studied to uncover the protective
factors which contributed to the resilience of the position]
p.57...systematic research on the role of the three types of factors that affect retention or loss
of adaptiveness under stress. The first are factors related to vulnerability and predisposition...
The second group of factors are the potentiators or triggering events... The third set of factors
- and those about which we know least - are the protective, stress-resistant, or resilient factors
that assist or foster the maintenance of competence under distressing circumstances.
p.72 It would appear that greater attention is now being paid to protective factors that can help contain
the effects of stress of war
p.73 "Protective" factors provide resistance to risk and foster outcomes marked by patterns of adaptation
and competence.
p.192 the consequences of an event are dependent upon the structural readiness of the organism.
This principle is vital to any discussion of stress and coping.
p.199 if the stressor can be assimilated, affective consequences are muted.
p.260 Change is brought about because circumstances are such as to force us to react to some new
challenge (i.e., a stressor).
