The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction to the Volume....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Social Ecologies and Their Contribution to Resilience....Pages 13-31
Resilience: Causal Pathways and Social Ecology....Pages 33-42
Theory and Measurement of Resilience: Views from Development....Pages 43-52
Resilience and Children’s Work in Brazil: Lessons from Physics for Psychology....Pages 53-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
An Interview with Macalane Malindi: The Impact of Education and Changing Social Policy on Resilience during Apartheid and Post Apartheid in South Africa....Pages 69-76
An Interview with Bill Strickland: How Community-Based Adult Educational Facilities Can Lift People Out of Poverty in Urban America....Pages 77-83
An Interview with Jude Simpson: Growing Beyond a Life of Abuse and Gang Involvement in New Zealand....Pages 85-90
An Interview with Vicki Durrant: Creating a Community Program for High-Risk Aboriginal Youth in Canada’s North....Pages 91-97
An Interview with Arn Chorn-Pond: Helping Children in Cambodia Through the Revival of Traditional Music and Art....Pages 99-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
From Neuron to Social Context: Restoring Resilience as a Capacity for Good Survival....Pages 111-125
Situating Resilience in Developmental Context....Pages 127-142
Temporal and Contextual Dimensions to Individual Positive Development: A Developmental–Contextual Systems Model of Resilience....Pages 143-156
Girls’ Violence: Criminality or Resilience?....Pages 157-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Facilitating Family Resilience: Relational Resources for Positive Youth Development in Conditions of Adversity....Pages 173-185
Contexts of Vulnerability and Resilience: Childhood Maltreatment, Cognitive Functioning and Close Relationships....Pages 187-198
Averting Child Maltreatment: Individual, Economic, Social, and Community Resources that Promote Resilient Parenting....Pages 199-217
Caring Relationships: How to Promote Resilience in Challenging Times....Pages 219-231
Young People, Their Families and Social Supports: Understanding Resilience with Complexity Theory....Pages 233-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Local Resources and Distal Decisions: The Political Ecology of Resilience....Pages 247-264
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Caring Teachers: Teacher–Youth Transactions to Promote Resilience....Pages 265-280
Children with Disabilities and Supportive School Ecologies....Pages 281-295
Resilience in Schools and Curriculum Design....Pages 297-306
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
How Prior Social Ecologies Shape Family Resilience Amongst Refugees in U.S. Resettlement....Pages 309-323
Young People, Sexual Orientation, and Resilience....Pages 325-335
Community Resilience: Fostering Recovery, Sustainability, and Growth....Pages 337-345
The Social Ecology of Resilience in War-Affected Youth: A Longitudinal Study from Sierra Leone....Pages 347-356
Travelling Through Social Support and Youth Civic Action on a Journey Towards Resilience....Pages 357-366
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Understanding Culture, Resilience, and Mental Health: The Production of Hope....Pages 369-386
Case Study: Promoting Community Resilience with Local Values – Greenland’s Paamiut Asasara....Pages 387-397
Toward an Ecology of Stories: Indigenous Perspectives on Resilience....Pages 399-414
Macro, Meso, and Micro-perspectives of Resilience During and After Exposure to War....Pages 415-424
Predictors of Resilient Psychosocial Functioning in Western Australian Aboriginal Young People Exposed to High Family-Level Risk....Pages 425-440
Back Matter....Pages 441-463