Interview with Suniya S. Luthar
Suniya S. Luthar is Professor of Psychology
and Education at Teachers College, Colombia University,
New York. She is being interviewed by Elisabeth Backe-Hansen,
Senior researcher and research manager at NOVA, Norwegian
Social Research.
They discuss resilience: applications and innovations.
Professor Luthar focuses on three sets of issues:
- definitions of the construct of resilience, and
delineation of the major features of research on this
construct.
- applications of research on resilience toward developing
interventions. Here, discussions will focus on the
value of using the resilience framework to guide our
thinking about interventions; major principles in
intervention design; and future directions in this
area.
- directions for research on resilience that derive
from applied considerations. The broad question addressed
here is this: if scientists wish to maximize the yield
of their research to ultimately benefit the children
they study, what factors warrant serious thought?
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