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Resilience in action : working with youth across cultures and contexts /

"Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels. Relational, cultural, individual, and governmental factors all have a strong influence over the mental well being of young people. Resilience in Action looks at youth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ungar, Michael, 1963-, Liebenberg, Linda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : understanding youth resilience in action : the way forward / Linda Liebenberg and Michael Ungar
  • Putting resilience theory into action : five principles for intervention / Michael Ungar
  • Understanding adolescent self-injury from a resilience perspective : a model for international interpretation / Nancy L. Heath, Jessica R. Toste, and Lana C. Zinck
  • Discovering how resilient capacities develop in the midst of surviving incest / Kim M. Anderson
  • Fostering post-traumatic growth in adolescent immigrants / Roni Berger
  • Building a better mousetrap : risk and resilience processes, the DSM, and the child psychiatrist / Normand Carrey
  • Promoting resilience and coping in social workers : learning from perceptions about resilience and coping among South African social work students / Linda Smith and Sandra J. Drower
  • Supporting resilience among homeless youth / Nicole Letourneau [and others]
  • The impact of an informal career development program on the resilience of inner-city youth / Kathryn Levine and Dawn Sutherland
  • Resilience as process : a group intervention program for adolescents with learning difficulties / Linda Theron
  • Youth expedition programming in Singapore : building resilience and positive personal development / Mah-Ngee Lee and Siew-Luan Tay-Koay
  • Australian approaches to understanding and building resilience in at-risk populations / Lisbeth T. Pike, Lynne Cohen, and Julie Ann Pooley
  • Synchronicity or serendipity? Aboriginal wisdom and childhood resilience / Jean Lafrance, Ralph Bodor, and Betty Bastien
  • Resilience in Japanese youth / Julie Anne Laser
  • Chinese approaches to understanding and building resilience in at-risk young people : the case of Hong Kong / Francis Wing-Lin Lee and Kennedy Kwong-Hung Ng
  • Raising youth voices in community and policy decision making / Jackie Sanders and Robyn Munford
  • Policy responses to youth in adversity : an integrated, strengths-based approach / E. Anne Marshall and Bonnie J. Leadbeater.