Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

Resilience is not just a complimentary individual quality, but something that is built. And you build it through a number of things in your life, part of it being social fabric.

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.

When you have really solid biology and medical science at the core of an issue, it makes it much easier to identify what potential solutions may be.

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

When you introduce these tools into the community, they can be adopted and implemented at the local level - and the results have been powerful. We have to ask the questions, how do people survive in poverty and other challenges of traumatic childhoods? And, until we fix this underlying problems, how do we help people in the meantime?

Our aim in the film ['Resilience'] is to make people understand that resilience is something you can create, build or develop, rather than just having as an inherent gift organically or thinking you are a special person. That's really important.