Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsFOREWORD - James GarbarinoINTRODUCTION: Resilience across cultures and contexts - Michael UngarTHEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES1. Children's Risk, Resilience and Coping in Extreme Situations - Jo Boyden and Gillian Mann2. Culture and Ethnic Identity in Family Resilience: Dynamic Processes in Trauma and Transformation of Indigenous People - Laurie Mc Cubbin and Hamilton Mc Cubbin3. Lessons Learned from Poor Urban African American Youth: Resilient Strengths in Coping with Adverse Environments - Joyce West Stevens4. Gendered Adaptations, Resilience, and the Perpetration of Violence - Jane Gilgun and Laura Abrams5. The Theory of Resilience and its application to street children in the Minority and Majority world - Jacqueline Mc Adam-Crisp, Lewis Aptekar and Wanjiku Kironyo6. Beyond resilience: Blending Wellness and Liberation in the Helping Professions - Isaac Prilleltensky and Ora Prilleltensky7. Community Based Child Welfare for Aboriginal Children: Supporting Resilience through Structural Change - Cindy Blackstock and Nico Trocmé8. Beetles, Bullfrogs and Butterflies: Contributions of Natural Environment to Childhood Development and Resilience - Fred BesthornMETHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN RESILIENCE RESEARCH9. Methodological challenges in the study of resilience - William Barton10. Qualitative resilience research: Contributions and risks - Michael Ungar and Eli Teram11. Psychosocial health in youth: An international perspective - John Le Blanc, Pam Talbott and Wendy Craig12. Resilience and wellbeing in developing countries - Laura Camfield and Allister Mc Gregor13. The International Resilience Project: A mixed methods approach to the study of resilience across cultures - Michael Ungar and Linda LiebenbergINTERVENING ACROSS CULTURES AND CONTEXTS14. Israeli youth cope with terror: Vulnerability and resilience - Zahava Solomon and Avital Laufer15. Overcoming Adversity with Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in Indigenous South African Cultural Contexts - Philip Cook and Leslie Du Toit16. Bent but not broken: Exploring queer youth resilience - Marion Brown and Marc Colbourne17. Psycho-Social Functioning of Children from Monogamous and Polygamous Families: Implications for Practice - Alean Al-Krenawi and Vered Slonim-Nevo18. Strengthening families and communities: System-building for resilience - Barbara J. Friesen and Eileen Brennan19. Professional discourse of social workers working with at-risk young people in Hong Kong: Risk or resilience - Kwai-Yau Wong and Lee Tak-Yan20. Resilient Youth in North East India: The role of faith based organizations in communities affected by violence - Jerry Thomas and George Menamparampil21. Alternative approaches to promoting the health and well-being of children: Accessing community resources to support resilience - Ken Barter22. Respecting Aboriginal Families: Customary care and Family group conferencing - Nancy Mac Donald, Joan Glode and Fred Wien23. Social and cultural roots of Russian youth resilience: Interventions by the state, society, and the family - Alexander Makhnach and Anna Laktionova24. Intercepts of resilience and Systems of Care - Mary Armstrong, Beth Stroul and Roger Boothroyd25. Youth Civic Engagement: Promise and Peril - Scotney D. Evans and Isaac Prilleltensky26. Resilience in Palestinian Youth - Toine van Teeffelen, Hania Bitar, Saleem Habash27. Resiliency and Young African-Canadian Males - Wanda Bernard and David Este28. Preventing violence among Children in Colombia - Luis Duque, Joanne Klevens, Michael Ungar and Anna Lee