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Social Ecologies and Their Contribution to Resilience
Michael Ungar
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The authors define resilience as a set of behaviors over time that depend on the opportunities that are available and accessible to individuals, their families, and communities. But they do not define what people mean when they say "do well when facing adversity".Abstract:
The chapter begins with a detailed expression of resilience that defines it as a set of behaviors over time that depends on the opportunities that are available and accessible to individuals, their families, and communities. Building on the research of other scholars and the Resilience Research Centre (Dalhousie University), the author shows the importance of understanding resilience as a contextually and culturally embedded construct and the need to capture what people mean when they say “doing well when facing adversity.”read more
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Annual Research Review: What is resilience within the social ecology of human development?
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Wildfire preparedness, community cohesion and social-ecological systems.
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Economic Stress, Parenting, and Child Adjustment in Mexican American and European American Families
Ross D. Parke,Scott Coltrane,Sharon Duffy,Raymond Buriel,Jessica M. Dennis,Justina Powers,Sabine Elizabeth French,Keith F. Widaman +7 more
TL;DR: To assess the impact of economic hardship on 111 European American and 167 Mexican American families and their 5th-grade children, a family stress model was evaluated and maternal acculturation was associated with both higher marital problems and lower hostile parenting.
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Handbook for working with children and youth : pathways to resilience across cultures and contexts
TL;DR: The Handbook for Working with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts examines lives lived well despite adversity as discussed by the authors, and explores the multiple paths children follow to health and wellbeing in diverse national and international settings.
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The Neighborhood Context of Well-Being
TL;DR: Two major themes merit special attention: (1) the importance of collective efficacy for understanding health disparities in the modern city; and (2) the salience of spatial dynamics that go beyond the confines of local neighborhoods.