Resilience in Action

Linda Liebenberg; Michael Ungar

Book

Resilience in Action

Linda Liebenberg and Michael Ungar

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2008

Published by

View more publications by University of Toronto Press

To Publisher Page

About this book

Featuring contributors from a variety of academic and cultural backgrounds, Resilience in Action offers diverse answers to many of the persistent questions mental health professionals ask regarding how to enhance resilience.

Author / Editor information

Liebenberg Linda :

Linda Liebenberg is an adjunct professor in the Department of Social Work and the Director of Research of the Pathways to Resilience Research Program at Dalhousie University.Ungar Michael :

Michael Ungar is a professor in the Department of Social Work at Dalhousie University.

Topics

Social Sciences Sociology Sociology, other

Publicly Available

Frontmatter
i

Download PDF
Publicly Available

Contents
v

Download PDF
Publicly Available

Acknowledgments
ix

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Introduction: Understanding Youth Resilience in Action: The Way Forward
1
Linda Liebenberg and Michael Ungar

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

1. Putting Resilience Theory into Action: Five Principles for Intervention
17
Michael Ungar

Download PDF
PART ONE. Promoting Individual Well-Being
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

2. Understanding Adolescent Self-Injury from a Resilience Perspective: A Model for International Interpretation
39
Nancy L. Heath, Jessica R. Toste and Lana C. Zinck

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

3. Discovering How Resilient Capacities Develop in the Midst of Surviving Incest
61
Kim M. Anderson

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

4. Fostering Post-traumatic Growth in Adolescent Immigrants
87
Roni Berger

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

5. Building a Better Mousetrap: Risk and Resilience Processes, the DSM, and the Child Psychiatrist
111
Normand Carrey

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

6. Promoting Resilience and Coping in Social Workers: Learning from Perceptions about Resilience and Coping among South African Social Work Students
137
Linda Smith and Sandra J. Drower

Download PDF
PART TWO. Structuring Services for Youth
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

7. Supporting Resilience among Homeless Youth
167
Nicole Letourneau, Miriam Stewart, Linda Reutter and Krista Hungler

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

8. The Impact of an Informal Career Development Program on the Resilience of Inner-City Youth
192
Kathryn Levine and Dawn Sutherland

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

9. Resilience as Process: A Group Intervention Program for Adolescents with Learning Difficulties
215
Linda Theron

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

10. Youth Expedition Programming in Singapore: Building Resilience and Positive Personal Development
238
Mah-Ngee Lee and Siew-Luan Tay-Koay

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

11. Australian Approaches to Understanding and Building Resilience in At-Risk Populations
264
Lisbeth T. Pike, Lynne Cohen and Julie Ann Pooley

Download PDF
PART THREE. Cultural Relevance
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

12. Synchronicity or Serendipity? Aboriginal Wisdom and Childhood Resilience
289
Jean Lafrance, Ralph Bodor and Betty Bastien

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

13. Resilience in Japanese Youth
321
Julie Anne Laser

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

14. Chinese Approaches to Understanding and Building Resilience in At-Risk Young People: The Case of Hong Kong
335
Francis Wing-Lin Lee and Kennedy Kwong-Hung Ng

Download PDF
PART FOUR. Government Policy and Service Provision
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

15. Raising Youth Voices in Community and Policy Decision Making
355
Jackie Sanders and Robyn Munford

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

16. Policy Responses to Youth in Adversity: An Integrated, Strengths-Based Approach
380
E. Anne Marshall and Bonnie J. Leadbeater

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Contributors
401

Download PDF

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

June 28, 2008

eBook ISBN:

9781442688995

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

384

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688995

eBook ISBN: 9781442688995

Audience(s) for this book

College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;

Resilience in Action

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Understanding Youth Resilience in Action: The Way Forward

1. Putting Resilience Theory into Action: Five Principles for Intervention

2. Understanding Adolescent Self-Injury from a Resilience Perspective: A Model for International Interpretation

3. Discovering How Resilient Capacities Develop in the Midst of Surviving Incest

4. Fostering Post-traumatic Growth in Adolescent Immigrants

5. Building a Better Mousetrap: Risk and Resilience Processes, the DSM, and the Child Psychiatrist

6. Promoting Resilience and Coping in Social Workers: Learning from Perceptions about Resilience and Coping among South African Social Work Students

7. Supporting Resilience among Homeless Youth

8. The Impact of an Informal Career Development Program on the Resilience of Inner-City Youth

9. Resilience as Process: A Group Intervention Program for Adolescents with Learning Difficulties

10. Youth Expedition Programming in Singapore: Building Resilience and Positive Personal Development

11. Australian Approaches to Understanding and Building Resilience in At-Risk Populations

12. Synchronicity or Serendipity? Aboriginal Wisdom and Childhood Resilience

13. Resilience in Japanese Youth

14. Chinese Approaches to Understanding and Building Resilience in At-Risk Young People: The Case of Hong Kong

15. Raising Youth Voices in Community and Policy Decision Making

16. Policy Responses to Youth in Adversity: An Integrated, Strengths-Based Approach

Contributors

Bibliographic data