Vulnerabilità e resilienza: lessico minimo

Abstract

The paper aims at presenting a brief digression on the definitions of vulnerability and resilience, in order to highlight their dialectical and mutual relationship and to clarify the lexicon that is at the basis of this organizing conceptual framework.
The different concepts of this framework are analyzed assuming not a structuralist approach, that distinguishes and separates, but a phenomenological and human development ecological one. This approach takes into account the meaning the person gives to the experience of vulnerability and mostly to the relations constituting his/her family context and that may be key in helping the child in building resilience out of weakness.