Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Understanding Youth Resilience in Action: The Way Forward 1
5. 1. Putting Resilience Theory into Action: Five Principles for Intervention 17
6. PART ONE. Promoting Individual Well-Being
7. 2. Understanding Adolescent Self-Injury from a Resilience Perspective: A Model for International Interpretation 39
8. 3. Discovering How Resilient Capacities Develop in the Midst of Surviving Incest 61
9. 4. Fostering Post-traumatic Growth in Adolescent Immigrants 87
10. 5. Building a Better Mousetrap: Risk and Resilience Processes, the DSM, and the Child Psychiatrist 111
11. 6. Promoting Resilience and Coping in Social Workers: Learning from Perceptions about Resilience and Coping among South African Social Work Students 137
12. PART TWO. Structuring Services for Youth
13. 7. Supporting Resilience among Homeless Youth 167
14. 8. The Impact of an Informal Career Development Program on the Resilience of Inner-City Youth 192
15. 9. Resilience as Process: A Group Intervention Program for Adolescents with Learning Difficulties 215
16. 10. Youth Expedition Programming in Singapore: Building Resilience and Positive Personal Development 238
17. 11. Australian Approaches to Understanding and Building Resilience in At-Risk Populations 264
18. PART THREE. Cultural Relevance
19. 12. Synchronicity or Serendipity? Aboriginal Wisdom and Childhood Resilience 289
20. 13. Resilience in Japanese Youth 321
21. 14. Chinese Approaches to Understanding and Building Resilience in At-Risk Young People: The Case of Hong Kong 335
22. PART FOUR. Government Policy and Service Provision
23. 15. Raising Youth Voices in Community and Policy Decision Making 355
24. 16. Policy Responses to Youth in Adversity: An Integrated, Strengths-Based Approach 380
25. Contributors 401