The science of resilience can help us understand why some children do well despite serious adversity. Resilience is a combination of protective factors that enable people to adapt in the face of serious hardship, and is essential to ensuring that children who experience adversity can still become healthy, productive citizens. Watch this video ‘In brief: What is resilience?’ produced by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University to learn about the fundamentals of resilience, which is built through interactions between children and their environments.