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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ungar, Michael, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resilience (Personality trait) in children.

Resilience (Personality trait) in adolescence.

Resilience (Personality trait) in children--Cross-cultural studies.

Resilience (Personality trait) in adolescence--Cross-cultural studies.

Social work with children.

Social work with youth.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 511 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Pathways to resilience across cultures and contexts

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2005]

Summary:

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.

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts / Michael Ungar xv

Part 1 Theoretical Perspectives 1

1 Children's Risk, Resilience, and Coping in Extreme Situations / Jo Boyden, Gillian Mann 3

2 Culture and Ethnic Identity in Family Resilience: Dynamic Processes in Trauma and Transformation of Indigenous People / Laurie D. McCubbin, Hamilton I. McCubbin 27

3 Lessons Learned From Poor African American Youth: Resilient Strengths in Coping With Adverse Environments / Joyce West Stevens 45

4 Gendered Adaptations, Resilience, and the Perpetration of Violence / Jane F. Gilgun, Laura S. Abrams 57

5 The Theory of Resilience and Its application to Street Children in the Minority and Majority World / Jacqueline McAdam-Crisp, Lewis Aptekar, Wanjiku Kironyo 71

6 Beyond Resilience: Blending Wellness and Liberation in the Helping Professions / Isaac Prilleltensky, Ora Prilleltensky 89

7 Community-Based Child Welfare for Aboriginal Children: Supporting Resilience Through Structural Change / Cindy Blackstock, Nico Trocme 105

8 Beetles, Bullfrogs, and Butterflies: Contributions of Natural Environment to Childhood Development and Resilience / Fred H. Besthorn 121

Part 2 Methodological Challenges in Resilience Research 133

9 Methodological Challenges in the Study of Resilience / William H. Barton 135

10 Qualitative Resilience Research: Contributions and Risks / Michael Ungar, Eli Teram 149

11 Psychosocial Health in Youth: An International Perspective / John C. LeBlanc, Pam J. Talbot, Wendy M. Craig 165

12 Resilience and Well-Being in Developing Countries / Laura Camfield, Allister McGregor 189

13 The International Resilience Project: A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Study of Resilience Across Cultures / Michael Ungar, Linda Liebenberg 211

Part 3 Intervening Across Cultures and Contexts 227

14 Israeli Youth Cope With Terror: Vulnerability and Resilience / Zahava Solomon, Avital Laufer 229

15 Overcoming Adversity With Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in the Indigenous South African Cultural Context / Philip Cook, Lesley du Toit 247

16 Bent But Not Broken: Exploring Queer Youth Resilience / Marion Brown, Marc Colbourne 263

17 Psychosocial Functioning of Children From Monogamous and Polygamous Families: Implications for Practice / Alean Al-Krenawi, Vered Slonim-Nevo 279

18 Strengthening Families and Communities: System Building for Resilience / Barbara J. Friesen, Eileen Brennan 295

19 Professional Discourse of Social Workers Working With At-Risk Young People in Hong Kong: Risk or Resilience? / Kwai-Yau Wong, Tak-yan Lee 313

20 Resilient Youth in North East India: The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Communities Affected by Violence / Jerry Thomas, George Menamparampil 329

21 Alternative Approaches to Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Children: Accessing Community Resources to Support Resilience / Ken Barter 343

22 Respecting Aboriginal Families: Pathways to Resilience in Custom Adoption and Family Group Conferencing / Nancy MacDonald, Joan Glode, Fred Wien 357

23 Social and Cultural Roots of Russian Youth Resilience: Interventions by the State, Society, and the Family / Alexander V. Makhnach, Anna I. Laktionova 371

24 Intercepts of Resilience and Systems of Care / Mary I. Armstrong, Beth A. Stroul, Roger A. Boothroyd 387

25 Youth Civic Engagement: Promise and Peril / Scot D. Evans, Isaac Prilleltensky 405

26 Resilience in the Palestinian Occupied Territories / Toine van Teeffelen, Hania Bitar, Saleem Al-Habash 417

27 Resiliency and Young African Canadian Males / Wanda Bernard, David Este 433

28 Violence Prevention Programming in Colombia: Challenges in Project Design and Fidelity / Luis F. Duque, Joanne Klevens, Michael Ungar, Anna W. Lee 455.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1412904056

OCLC:

57192985