Educar para la resiliencia. Un cambio de mirada en la prevención de situaciones de riesgo social

Abstract

Child's happiness and well-being are not just because of coincidence or luck, but a never individual human product, nor familiar, but the result of the whole society. Protectio and defense of children's rights is a task of everyone who recognice themselves as human beings. Maltreatment is humiliating and gives feelling of uselessness, abandonment, despair, social incompetence and guilt in children, who must make an extraordinary effort in order to escape from it, controlling the rest of their lives or employing violence for making a victim of other people around. However, some peoples's capacity for living a normal life when they have lived normality is a clear testimony of elasticity and capacity of resilience of human spirit. Those who had to surpass a hard situation, they describe the meeting with a significative person , comprehension, love, fantasy, optimism,humour, feeling, respect of himsell, illusion, pleasure, generosity, hope, creativity pleasure for life, work ... as resilience factors. Adults are the ones who must place around child the guides for development which permit him knit their resilience.