‘To study resilience one should adopt a fundamental humility about oneself and one′s culture and society and simultaneously a respect for the human strength of others. The chapters in this book take these three cautions seriously, and offer a convincing demonstration that resilience is indeed a many-splendored thing.’ –James Garbarino, Cornell University
The Handbook For Working With Children and Youth: Pathways To Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts examines lives lived well despite adversity. Calling upon some of the most progressive thinkers in the field, it presents a groundbreaking collection of original writing on the theories, methods of study, and interventions that promote resilience. Unlike other works that have left largely unquestioned their own culture-bound interpretations of the ways children and youth survive and thrive, this volume explores the multiple paths children follow to health and well-being in diverse national and international settings. It demonstrates the connection between social and political health resources and addresses the more immediate concerns of how those who care for children create the physical, emotional, and spiritual environments in which resilience is nurtured.
Key Features
- Cross-cultural. Illustrates the rich variety of culturally embedded pathways by which children navigate toward health and well-being
- Multidisciplinary. Draws upon international experts utilizing both quantitative and qualitative studies from psychology, social work, psychiatry, nursing, education, criminology, child and youth care, community health, and family therapy
- Comprehensive. Provides broad developmental perspectives on resilience, from theory and research methods to interventions with individuals, families, and communities
- Connects theory to practice. Clarifies the construct of resilience from the viewpoint of resilience researchers and practitioners in health-related disciplines from different methodological paradigms within the social sciences and human services
Academics, graduate students, and professionals studying or working in human service fields such as human development and family studies, education, social work, child and youth care work, developmental psychology/applied developmental science, child psychiatry, nursing, and family therapy will benefit from this Handbook. In essence, anyone who works with youth or is interested in the developmental issues related to children and youth in clinical, residential, or community settings will find Ungar’s Handbook to be of great value.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
FOREWORD – James Garbarino
INTRODUCTION: Resilience across cultures and contexts – Michael Ungar
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Children′s Risk, Resilience and Coping in Extreme Situations – Jo Boyden and Gillian Mann
2. Culture and Ethnic Identity in Family Resilience: Dynamic Processes in Trauma and Transformation of Indigenous People – Laurie Mc Cubbin and Hamilton Mc Cubbin
3. Lessons Learned from Poor Urban African American Youth: Resilient Strengths in Coping with Adverse Environments – Joyce West Stevens
4. Gendered Adaptations, Resilience, and the Perpetration of Violence – Jane Gilgun and Laura Abrams
5. The Theory of Resilience and its application to street children in the Minority and Majority world – Jacqueline Mc Adam-Crisp, Lewis Aptekar and Wanjiku Kironyo
6. Beyond resilience: Blending Wellness and Liberation in the Helping Professions – Isaac Prilleltensky and Ora Prilleltensky
7. Community Based Child Welfare for Aboriginal Children: Supporting Resilience through Structural Change – Cindy Blackstock and Nico Trocmé
8. Beetles, Bullfrogs and Butterflies: Contributions of Natural Environment to Childhood Development and Resilience – Fred Besthorn
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN RESILIENCE RESEARCH
9. Methodological challenges in the study of resilience – William Barton
10. Qualitative resilience research: Contributions and risks – Michael Ungar and Eli Teram
11. Psychosocial health in youth: An international perspective – John Le Blanc, Pam Talbott and Wendy Craig
12. Resilience and wellbeing in developing countries – Laura Camfield and Allister Mc Gregor
13. The International Resilience Project: A mixed methods approach to the study of resilience across cultures – Michael Ungar and Linda Liebenberg
INTERVENING ACROSS CULTURES AND CONTEXTS
14. Israeli youth cope with terror: Vulnerability and resilience – Zahava Solomon and Avital Laufer
15. Overcoming Adversity with Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in Indigenous South African Cultural Contexts – Philip Cook and Leslie Du Toit
16. Bent but not broken: Exploring queer youth resilience – Marion Brown and Marc Colbourne
17. Psycho-Social Functioning of Children from Monogamous and Polygamous Families: Implications for Practice – Alean Al-Krenawi and Vered Slonim-Nevo
18. Strengthening families and communities: System-building for resilience – Barbara J. Friesen and Eileen Brennan
19. Professional discourse of social workers working with at-risk young people in Hong Kong: Risk or resilience – Kwai-Yau Wong and Lee Tak-Yan
20. Resilient Youth in North East India: The role of faith based organizations in communities affected by violence – Jerry Thomas and George Menamparampil
21. Alternative approaches to promoting the health and well-being of children: Accessing community resources to support resilience – Ken Barter
22. Respecting Aboriginal Families: Customary care and Family group conferencing – Nancy Mac Donald, Joan Glode and Fred Wien
23. Social and cultural roots of Russian youth resilience: Interventions by the state, society, and the family – Alexander Makhnach and Anna Laktionova
24. Intercepts of resilience and Systems of Care – Mary Armstrong, Beth Stroul and Roger Boothroyd
25. Youth Civic Engagement: Promise and Peril – Scotney D. Evans and Isaac Prilleltensky
26. Resilience in Palestinian Youth – Toine van Teeffelen, Hania Bitar, Saleem Habash
27. Resiliency and Young African-Canadian Males – Wanda Bernard and David Este
28. Preventing violence among Children in Colombia – Luis Duque, Joanne Klevens, Michael Ungar and Anna Lee
About the author
Michael Ungar received a Ph.D. in Social Work from Wilfred Laurier University in 1995. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Maritime School of Social Work at Dalhousie University, Canada. He has published articles in such journals as Adolescence, Youth & Society, Qualitative Social Work, Social Service Review, the Journal of Systemic Therapies, and Child & Youth Care Forum. Dr. Ungar has been researching, writing, and teaching about resilience among youth for ten years in Canada, the U.S., Hong Kong, and Columbia. He oversees a federally funded international research project involving collaboration among researchers in eleven sites on five continents exploring similarities and differences in how resilience is understood, studied, and nurtured. As part of this, he will soon embark on a tour of Israel, England, Russia, and Tanzania. He recently presented two papers detailing his work at an international qualitative methods conference hosted by Sage and the International Institute for Qualitative Methods. He has a well-established international network of colleagues in this field across many disciplines, and many will be contributors to this volume.
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