The Social Competence of Children Following Burn Injury: A Study of Resilience

That the literature focuses primarily on the psychosocial adjustment of burned children who are doing poorly, without paying as much attention to those who are doing well, highlighted the need for a study that would identify the factors that inoculate the child or have a health-enhancing effect, rendering the child more resilient to the stress of burn injury. Chart abstractions for sociodemographic and clinical data were completed on 337 …