Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth /

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"Michael Ungar's Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth is the first text in its field to examine resilience as a social construct. It offers a comprehensive theory of resilience and a model for the application of this theory to direct practice with high-risk youth in clinical, resi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ungar, Michael, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Resilience (Personality trait)
At-risk youth > Psychology.
At-risk youth > Behavior modification.
Adaptability (Psychology)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Adolescent.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Teenagers.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Adolescence.
Adaptation (Psychologie)
Resilience (Trait de personnalite)
Jeunes difficiles > Modification du comportement.
Jeunes difficiles > Psychologie.
Behavior Therapy
Adaptation, Psychological
Juvenile Delinquency > psychology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The social construction of resilience
  • Resilience under study
  • Progressive dilemmas in resilience research
  • Discursive resistance and postmodern youth
  • From experiences of power to mental health
  • Constructions of resilience in out-of-home placements
  • Professional interventions to build narratives of resilience
  • Volunteers, guides, and paraprofessionals
  • Mental health, resilience, and discursive power.

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