https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp19n111vo

The BBC article that focuses on resilience as a response to the current Mental Health crisis.

Nick Triggle's interesting article for the BBC on the sometimes contentious debate around childhood resilience.
 
There is much to digest here and the article’s main contention is that childhood resilience has fallen, over the years, making it more difficult for young people to manage the normal up’s and down’s of life.
 
The article quotes several commentators and researchers who attribute this to negative factors like Covid, social media, environmental factors etc.
 
Working with children and families, teens and young and older adults since 1997 leads me to agree that levels of mental health resilience have fallen.
 
However, what seems to be missing from the article is a factor that I think is crucial to developing mental health resilience: the navigation of separation and loss, which leads to a more robust sense of self. 
 
Some people call it self-actualisation, some call it individuation. Today the opportunities for young people to develop a solid sense of separate self are so much less than they were in the  past – psychodynamic psychotherapy can help!