Title: Resilience in action : working with youth across cultures and contexts /
Authors: Ungar, Michael, 1963-; Liebenberg, Linda.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait) in adolescence.; Resilience (Personality trait); Youth Mental health; Youth Services for; Résilience chez l'adolescent.; Résilience (Trait de personnalité); Jeunesse Santé mentale.; Jeunesse, Services à la.; Adaptation, Psychological; Resilience, Psychological; Adolescent; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Psychology, Adolescent
Contents: 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 ... [et al.] --