Эмми Вернер: Қауіпсіздік пен төзімділік психологіясы

American psychologist (1929–2017)
Emmy E. Werner (1929 – October 12, 2017) was an American developmental psychologist known for her research on risk and resilience in children.

She received her Ph. D. from the University of Nebraska and was a professor emerita in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis.

Werner was best known for her leadership of a 40 year longitudinal study of 698 infants born on the Hawaiian island of Kauai — the island's entire birth cohort for the year 1955. The study found that many children exposed to reproductive and environmental risk factors (for instance, premature birth coupled with an unstable household and a mentally ill mother) go on to experience more problems with delinquency, mental and physical health and family stability than children exposed to fewer such risk factors. Among Werner's most significant findings was that one third of all high risk children displayed resilience and developed into caring, competent and confident adults despite their problematic development histories. She and her fellow researchers identified a number of protective factors in the lives of these resilient individuals that helped to balance out risk factors at critical periods in their development. Among these factors were a strong bond with a nonparental caretaker (such as an aunt, babysitter, or teacher) and involvement in a church or community group like the YMCA. Her book Through the Eyes of Innocents tells the stories of children caught up in World War II in their own words.