Table of Contents

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 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 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 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 Contexts - Philip Cook and Leslie DuToit
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 MacDonald, 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.

Reviews

"This well-written handbook explores the empirical and theoretical work on resilience or ′human strength,′ that many children and youth possess despite experiencing traumatic events or negative-abusive environments. . . . What makes this handbook both unique and cutting-edge is its focus on cross-cultural and multicultural issues regarding resilience. . . . Highly recommended."
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