1. Guest, Y. (2015) http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/24515/
A psycho-social exploration of the impact of transracial adoption over the life span
Dr Yvon Guest
Guest, Y. (2015)

2. Resilience – bouncing back from adversity

3. Resilience – bending but not breaking?

4. Cumulative trauma – broken and resilient

5. Resilience - surviving and beyond surviving
Surviving - more threats than resources (internal and external)
Beyond surviving – more resources than threats (internal and external)

6. A resource that lasts a life time – the shadow of the object

7. Threats that last a life time - the black hole

8. The psycho-social dynamics of resilience in a transracial placement
External threats – racism, overt and benign
Internal threats – cumulative trauma (Faustian pact)
External resources – education, privilege, stability
Internal resources – feelings of self worth, aspirations

9. 20 something surviving in some areas of life but not others
Success in education
A volcano of cumulative trauma erupts
Am I going to make it to 30?
A creative working life

10. Interviews always throw up the unexpected!

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