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Examinations of risk and psychopathology across the life course all too often portray the developmental process as somewhat deterministic, resulting in maladaptive and adverse outcomes. Studies ranging from genetic and biological predispositions to pathology, to assaults on development associated with inadequate caregiving, graphically convey the multiplicity of risks that eventuate in psychopathology. Thus, it is especially refreshing to explore the more optimistic component of the psychopathology-risk equation, namely, resilience. What individual, familial, or societal factors stem the trajectory from risk to psychopathology, thereby resulting in adaptive outcomes even in the presence of adversity? It is the answer to this query that the contributors to this Special Issue of Development and Psychopathology have directed their energies toward elucidating.
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