Overview
Although there are many trade books and some professional books published on resilience and children, this is the only text on the market focused on the research related to promoting "resilient" environments or contexts (families, relationships, communities, etc) that in turn can support resilience in individuals (through interventions or policy)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Conceptual and Empirical Framework for Linking Resilience to Intervention and Policy
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Resilience Enhancement Programs for High-Risk Children, Families, and Youth
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Expanding Resilience Programs to Include Neighborhoods and Communities
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About this book
Despite the numerous benefits derived from major technological and medical innovations of the past century, we continue to live in a world rife with significant social problems and challenges. Children continue to be born into lives of poverty; others must confront daily their parent’s mental illness or substance abuse; still others live amid chronic family discord or child abuse. For some of these children, life’s difficulties become overwhelming. Their enduring trauma can lead to a downward spiral, until their behavioral and emotional problems become lifelong barriers to success and wellbeing.
Almost no one today would deny that the world is sometimes an inhospitable, even dangerous, place for our youth. Yet most children—even those living in high-risk environments—appear to persevere. Some even flourish. And this begs the question: why, in the face of such great odds, do these children become survivors rather than casualties of their environments? For many decades, scholars have pursued answers to the mysteries of resilience. Now, having culled several decades of research findings, the editors of this volume offer an in-depth, leading-edge description and analysis of Resilience in Children, Families and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy.
The book is divided into three readily accessible sections that both define the scope and limits of resilience as well as provide hands-on programs that families, neighborhoods, and communities can implement. In addition, several chapters provide real-life intervention strategies and social policies that can be readily put into practice. The goal: to enable children to develop more effective problem-solving skills, to help each child to improve his or her self-image, and to define ways in which role models can affect positive outcomes throughout each child’s lifetime.
For researchers, clinicians, and students, Resilience in Children, Families and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy is an essential addition to their library. It provides practical information to inform greater success in the effort to encourage resilience in all children and to achieve positive youth development.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Resilience is a word that is frequently used, but what does it mean, and how does it affect our children, families, and communities? That is precisely the topic of Resilience in Children, Families, and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy. … This book is exciting in that it represents a call to action for those of us in resilience research, prevention and intervention efforts, and public policy to work together to use all of our expertise … ." (Sarah K. Sifers, PsycCRITIQUES, August, 2005)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilience in Children, Families, and Communities
Book Subtitle: Linking Context to Practice and Policy
Editors: Ray DeV. Peters, Bonnie Leadbeater, Robert J. McMahon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b102741
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48655-5Published: 16 December 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3463-5Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-23824-1Published: 22 November 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 202