Ms. Asai's Life: A Case Study
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Over the course of her life, Ms. Asai faced both developmental risk and protection. As the life course perspective has evolved, “it has more clearly emphasized the links between the life events and transitions of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.” Timing and conditions under which life events and transitions occur, such as enduring hardship, impact the developmental path contingent on when these hardships occur and their spacing in between. A family’s trajectory can be vulnerable to getting off-track when confronted simultaneously by multiple life events and transitions. However, these early deprivations and traumas do not always lead to a trajectory failure. The human ability to bounce back from early deprivations and trauma, and the