The social ecology of resilience : a handbook of theory and practice

More than two decades after Michael Rutter (1987) published his summary of protective processes associated with resilience, researchers continue to report definitional ambiguity in how to define and operationalize positive development under adversity. The problem has been partially the result of a dominant view of resilience as something individuals have, rather than as a process that families, schools, communities and governments facilitate. Because resilience is related to the presence of social risk factors, there is a need for an ecological interpretation of the construct that acknowledges the importance of people's interactions with their environments. The Social Ecology of Resilience provides evidence for this ecological understanding of resilience in ways that help to resolve both definition and measurement problems. (fonte: editore) 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 In a time of increasing exposure to personal psychological stress, as well as war, natural disasters, and economic upheaval, positive development under adversity--resilience--is meriting wider and deeper study. Despite this attention and over four decades' worth of robust literature, resilience remains difficult to define and even harder to measure. Taking the view that resilience is a process to be developed and nurtured rather than a hard-wired capacity of the individual, The Social Ecology of Resilience explains how interactions with school, family, community, and culture can provide ingredients for positive development. Case studies representing international and cross-disciplinary perspectives (e.g., Aboriginal youth in Australia, refugees in Sudan, and gay teens in the U.S.) demonstrate resilience across cultures and the lifespan. And interviews with healers and activists who have themselves survived trauma reveal resilience as a set of processes that can be both learned and taught. Featured in the coverage: Causal pathways and how social ecologies influence resilience. Situating resilience in developmental contexts. Fostering recovery, sustainability, and growth in traumatized communities. Resources that promote resilient parenting. Children with disabilities and the supportive school. Indigenous perspectives on resilience. The up-to-date data and real-world viewpoints in The Social Ecology of Resilience will be of great interest to those working with this elusive concept, including social workers, psychologists, students and professors in family relations, and researchers in social policy