| The Scottish Executive has published a literature review identifying definitions of resilience and the factors which increase resilience in survivors of institutional child abuse. Findings include: resilience is a process rather than an individual character trait or a particular outcome. |
| Source: Scottish Executive website Uncertain Legacies: Resilience and Institutional Child Abuse – A Literature Review 25 June 2012 |
| Further information: Uncertain Legacies: Resilience and Institutional Child Abuse – A Literature Review – Research Findings |

