{"id":21,"date":"2011-10-02T19:24:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/third-edition\/cc-1-2-resilience\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T21:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T21:41:55","slug":"cc-1-2-individual-pathways","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/third-edition\/cc-1-2-individual-pathways\/","title":{"rendered":"CC 1.2 Individual differences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Consider…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three children at the library<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nTwo-year-old Avery is at the library with her grandfather. They are watching a puppet show together with a dozen other children… Read more<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

In the scenario above, you read about three children, Sula, Ashraf and Jamel, all the same age, living in the same neighbourhood, having the same experience \u2013 yet they responded quite differently. Each child\u2019s reactions and responses are based on his or her arousal and recovery to an incoming stressor. They have individual self-regulation patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The late Sir Michael Rutter,\u00a0formerly at King’s College London, had a profound influence in the fields of genetics and psychiatry for more than forty years. He points to the importance of recognizing each child’s individuality.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n VIEW<\/span>\n Rutter – responding (2:28)<\/span>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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