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  • Chapter 34 - Serendipity on the Path to Developmental Resilience Science

  • Edited by Frank Kessel, University of New Mexico
  • Book:
    Pillars of Developmental Psychology
    Published online:
    14 February 2025
    Print publication:
    20 February 2025, pp 383-394

  • Summary

    I recount my journey to developmental resilience science, highlighting the influence of serendipity and relationships. From a childhood in the military to Smith College, then onward to the NIH and the University of Minnesota, I describe forks and barriers as well as opportunities that shaped my path, including influences of mentors, challenges faced by women in academia, and fortuitous turning points in my life trajectory. I reflect on links between my own life and my motivation to understand resilience processes in children affected by adversities such as homelessness, natural disasters, or war, as well as the protections afforded by family relationships, friends, mentors, and collaborators. Relationships played a critical role in the evolution of my ideas and research, initially as a graduate student and then as a collaborator and mentor. Passing the baton to new generations of scholars, I have great confidence that resilience science and its applications to benefit human development are in very capable hands.