Handbook for Working with Children and Youth

Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts

Michael Ungar

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN: 9781412904056
• eBook ISBN: 9781452214658
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

"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 contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction: Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts
• Part I - Theoretical Perspectives
• Chapter 1 - Children's Risk, Resilience, and Coping in Extreme Situations
• Chapter 2 - Culture and Ethnic Identity in Family Resilience: Dynamic Processes in Trauma and Transformation of Indigenous People
• Chapter 3 - Lessons Learned from Poor African American Youth: Resilient Strengths in Coping with Adverse Environments
• Chapter 4 - Gendered Adaptations, Resilience, and the Perpetration of Violence
• Chapter 5 - The Theory of Resilience and Its Application to Street Children in the Minority and Majority World
• Chapter 6 - Beyond Resilience: Blending Wellness and Liberation in the Helping Professions
• Chapter 7 - Community-Based Child Welfare for Aboriginal Children: Supporting Resilience through Structural Change
• Chapter 8 - Beetles, Bullfrogs, and Butterflies: Contributions of Natural Environment to Childhood Development and Resilience
• Part II - Methodological Challenges in Resilience Research
• Chapter 9 - Methodological Challenges in the Study of Resilience
• Chapter 10 - Qualitative Resilience Research: Contributions and Risks
• Chapter 11 - Psychosocial Health in Youth: An International Perspective
• Chapter 12 - Resilience and Weil-Being in Developing Countries
• Chapter 13 - The International Resilience Project: A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Study of Resilience across Cultures
• Part III - Intervening across Cultures and Contexts
• Chapter 14 - Israeli Youth Cope with Terror: Vulnerability and Resilience
• Chapter 15 - Overcoming Adversity with Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in the Indigenous South African Cultural Context
• Chapter 16 - Bent But not Broken: Exploring Queer Youth Resilience
• Chapter 17 - Psychosocial Functioning of Children from Monogamous and Polygamous Families: Implications for Practice
• Chapter 18 - Strengthening Families and Communities: System Building for Resilience
• Chapter 19 - Professional Discourse of Social Workers Working with at-Risk Young People in Hong Kong: Risk or Resilience?
• Chapter 20 - Resilient Youth in North East India: The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Communities Affected by Violence
• Chapter 21 - Alternative Approaches to Promoting the Health and Weil-Being of Children: Accessing Community Resources to Support Resilience
• Chapter 22 - Respecting Aboriginal Families: Pathways to Resilience in Custom Adoption and Family Group Conferencing
• Chapter 23 - Social and Cultural Roots of Russian Youth Resilience: Interventions by the State, Society, and the Family
• Chapter 24 - Intercepts of Resilience and Systems of Care
• Chapter 25 - Youth Civic Engagement: Promise and Peril
• Chapter 26 - Resilience in the Palestinian Occupied Territories
• Chapter 27 - Resiliency and Young African Canadian Males
• Chapter 28 - Violence Prevention Programming in Colombia: Challenges in Project Design and Fidelity
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Contributors