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Handbook for working with children and youth : pathways to resilience across cultures and contexts / edited by Michael Ungar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : SAGE, 2005.Description: 520 pISBN:
  • 9781412904056 (hbk.) :
  • 1412904056 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.7 UNG
LOC classification:
  • BF723.R46 H357 2005
Contents:
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 McCubbin and Hamilton McCubbin 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 McAdam-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 Trocme 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 LeBlanc, Pam Talbott and Wendy Craig 12. Resilience and wellbeing in developing countries - Laura Camfield and Allister McGregor 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 Context. Philip Cook and Lesley du Toit -- 16.Bent but not broken: exploring queer youth resilience. Marion Brown and Marc Colbourne -- 17.Psychosocial 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. Ken Barter -- 22.Respecting aboriginal families in custom adoption and family group conferencing. Nancy MacDonald, Joan Glode and Fred Wien --23.Social cultural roots of Russian youth resilience: interventions by the state, society, and the family. Alexander V. Makhnack and Anna I/ Laktionova -- 24.Inctercepts of resilience and systems of care. Mary I. Armstrong, Beth A. Stroul, and Roger A. Boothroyd -- 25.Youth civic engagement: promise and peril. Scot D. Evans and Isaac Rilleltensky -- 26.Resilience in Palestinian Occupied Territories. Toine van Teefelen, Hania Bitar, and Saleem Al-Habash -- 27.Resiliency and young African Canadian males. Wanda Bernard and David Este -- 28.Violence prevention programming in Colombia: challeges in project design and fidelity. Luis F. Duque, Joanne Klevens, Michael Ungar, and Anna W. Lee.
Summary: Children navigate their ways to health through a variety of culturally embedded routes. This volume draws together experts in related fields of study to report on both quantitative & qualitative studies from psychology, social work, psychiatry, nursing, education, criminology, child & youth care, community health & family therapy.
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Short Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 362.7 UNG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205290
Short Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 362.7 UNG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 128372

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 McCubbin and Hamilton McCubbin 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 McAdam-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 Trocme 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 LeBlanc, Pam Talbott and Wendy Craig 12. Resilience and wellbeing in developing countries - Laura Camfield and Allister McGregor 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 Context. Philip Cook and Lesley du Toit -- 16.Bent but not broken: exploring queer youth resilience. Marion Brown and Marc Colbourne -- 17.Psychosocial 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. Ken Barter -- 22.Respecting aboriginal families in custom adoption and family group conferencing. Nancy MacDonald, Joan Glode and Fred Wien --23.Social cultural roots of Russian youth resilience: interventions by the state, society, and the family. Alexander V. Makhnack and Anna I/ Laktionova -- 24.Inctercepts of resilience and systems of care. Mary I. Armstrong, Beth A. Stroul, and Roger A. Boothroyd -- 25.Youth civic engagement: promise and peril. Scot D. Evans and Isaac Rilleltensky -- 26.Resilience in Palestinian Occupied Territories. Toine van Teefelen, Hania Bitar, and Saleem Al-Habash -- 27.Resiliency and young African Canadian males. Wanda Bernard and David Este -- 28.Violence prevention programming in Colombia: challeges in project design and fidelity. Luis F. Duque, Joanne Klevens, Michael Ungar, and Anna W. Lee.

Children navigate their ways to health through a variety of culturally embedded routes. This volume draws together experts in related fields of study to report on both quantitative & qualitative studies from psychology, social work, psychiatry, nursing, education, criminology, child & youth care, community health & family therapy.

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