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

By Michael Ungar

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2012
ISBN
1461405858, 9781461405856
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-0586-3
Google Books ID
OlrVw_WNoXYC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3965465 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
463\480
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00
Social Work; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy

Description

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.

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