Well-resourced Survival Partner: Who do you turn to? Support and resilience
Who do you turn to when your world turns upside down? Life events happen to everyone. The difference between those who become system involved and those who don’t is often the presence of a well-resourced survival partner.
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References and suggested reading/listening:
Peer Reviewed Scholarly Publications
Appleton, A. A., Kiley, K., Holdsworth, E. A., & Schell, L. M. (2019). Social Support During Pregnancy Modifies the Association Between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Infant Birth Size. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 23(3), 408–415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-018-02706-z
Coplan, J. D., Gupta, N. K., Karim, A., Rozenboym, A., Smith, E. L. P., Kral, J., & Rosenblum, L. A. (2017). Maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response to foraging uncertainty: A model of individual vs. social allostasis and the “superorganism hypothesis.” PLoS ONE, 12(9), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184340
Coplan, J. D., Paunica, A. D., & Rosenblum, L. A. (2008). Neuropsychobiology of the Variable Foraging Demand Paradigm in Nonhuman Primates. In J. M. Gorman (Ed.), Fear and Anxiety: The Benefits of Translational Research (pp. 47–60). American Psychiatric Publishing, Incorporated.
Coplan, J. D., Rozenboym, A. V., Fulton, S. L., Panthangi, V., Tang, J., Thiramangalakdi, L., Perera, T. D., Liu, Y., Kamran, H., Owens, M. J., Nemeroff, C. B., Rosenblum, L. A., Kral, J. G., Salciccioli, L., & Lazar, J. (2018). Reduced left ventricular dimension and function following early life stress: A thrifty phenotype hypothesis engendering risk for mood and anxiety disorders. Neurobiology of Stress, 8, 202–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2017.01.001
Ellis, B. J., Bianchi, J., Griskevicius, V., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2017). Beyond Risk and Protective Factors: An Adaptation-Based Approach to Resilience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(4), 561–587. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617693054
Ellis, B. J., Del Giudice, M., Dishion, T. J., Figueredo, A. J., Gray, P., Griskevicius, V., Hawley, P. H., Jacobs, W. J., James, J., Volk, A. A., & Wilson, D. S. (2012). The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: implications for science, policy, and practice. Developmental Psychology, 48(3), 598–623. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026220
Ellis, B. J., Figueredo, A. J., Brumbach, B. H., & Schlomer, G. L. (2009). Fundamental dimensions of environmental risk: The impact of harsh versus unpredictable environments on the evolution and development of life history strategies. In Human Nature (Vol. 20, Issue 2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-009-9063-7
Kaufman, D., Banerji, M. A., Shorman, I., Smith, E. L. P., Coplan, J. D., Rosenblum, L. A., & Kral, J. G. (2007). Early-life stress and the development of obesity and insulin resistance in juvenile bonnet macaques. Diabetes, 56(5), 1382–1386. https://doi.org/10.2337/db06-1409
Mokler, D. J., Galler, J. R., & Morgane, P. J. (2003). Modulation of 5-HT release in the hippocampus of 30-day-old rats exposed in utero to protein malnutrition. Developmental Brain Research, 142(2), 203–208. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-3806(03)00093-2
Provençal, N., Booij, L., & Tremblay, R. E. (2015). The developmental origins of chronic physical aggression : biological pathways triggered by early life adversity. 123–133. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.111401
Rushmore, R. J., McGaughy, J. A., Mokler, D. J., & Rosene, D. L. (2022). The enduring effect of prenatal protein malnutrition on brain anatomy, physiology and behavior. Nutritional Neuroscience, 25(7), 1392–1399. https://doi.org/10.1080/1028415X.2020.1859730
Simpson, J. a., Griskevicius, V., Kuo, S. I.-C., Sung, S., & Collins, W. A. (2012). Evolution, stress, and sensitive periods: The influence of unpredictability in early versus late childhood on sex and risky behavior. Developmental Psychology, 48(3), 674–686. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027293
Stevens, H. E., Leckman, J. F., Coplan, J. D., & Suomi, S. J. (2009). Risk and resilience: Early manipulation of macaque social experience and persistent behavioral and neurophysiological outcomes. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48(2), 114–127. https://doi.org/10.1097/CHI.0b013e318193064c
Weaver, I. C. G., Cervoni, N., Champagne, F. A., D’Alessio, A. C., Sharma, S., Seckl, J. R., Dymov, S., Szyf, M., & Meaney, M. J. (2004). Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior. Nature Neuroscience, 7(8), 847–854. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1276
Podcasts and Interviews
Specialized: The Unique Strengths of Stress-Adapted Youth with Willem Frankenhuis
The Lasting Effects of Food Insecurity in Early Childhood a conversation with Dr. Jeremy Coplan
Media credit (photo/video/audio/animation) Sincere thanks to the following artists
Thumbnail Image - Well-resourced Survival Partner elements - Kellie Rhodes
Person pulling hair – Flexx, Storyblocks
Person almost drowning – istock.com/urbazon
Person walking on shore – Wavebreak Media, Storyblocks
Boys fighting in alley – istock.com/Synthetic-Exposition (Stock video. Posed by models)
Grandparents in short-term survival bodystate – Oles Ishchuk, Storyblocks (Stock video. Posed by Models)
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