Ann S. Masten, PhD, is Regents Professor of Child Development and Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. An internationally known expert on resilience in human development, she has over 300 publications in scholarly journals and books. Dr. Masten is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a past president of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), and a past president of Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA). She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the APA. Dr. Masten is a recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from SRCD, the Distinguished Career Contributions to Science Award from the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (APA Division 53), and the Mentor Award and the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from APA Division 7. Other honors include the Smith College Medal and an honorary doctorate from Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

I. Introduction and Conceptual Overview
1. Introduction
2. Models of Resilience
II. Studies of Individual Resilience
3. Resilience in a Community Sample: The Project Competence Longitudinal Study
4. Overcoming Disadvantage and Economic Crisis: Homeless Children
5. Mass Trauma and Extreme Adversities: Resilience in War, Terrorism, and Disaster
III. Adaptive Systems in Resilience
6. The Short List and Implicated Protective Systems
7. The Neurobiology of Resilience
8. Resilience in the Context of Families
9. Resilience in the Context of Schools
10. Resilience in the Context of Culture
IV. Moving Forward: Implications for Action and Future Research
11. A Resilience Framework for Action
12. Conclusions and Future Directions
Appendix A. Glossary
Appendix B. Abbreviations
Appendix C. Recommended Readings by Topic