The Social Ecology of Resilience

I. Introduction to the Theory

- Social Ecologies and their Contribution to Resilience

- Resilience: Causal Pathways and Social Ecology

- Theory and Measurement of Resilience: Views from Development

- Resilience and Children's Work in Brazil: Lesson from Physics for Psychology

II. Five Interviews

- An Interview with Macalane Malindi: The Impact of Education and Changing Social Policy on Resilience During Apartheid and Post-Apartheid in South Africa

- An Interview with Bill Strickland: How Community-based Adult Educational Facilities can Lift People out of Poverty in Urban America

- An Interview with Jude Simpson: Growing Beyond a Life of Abuse and Gang Involvement in New Zealand

- An Interview with Vicki Durrant: Creating a Community Program for High-Risk Aboriginal Youth in Canada's North

- An Interview with Arn Chorn-Pond: Helping Children in Cambodia Through the Revival of Traditional Music and Art

III. The Individual (in context).-From Neurons to Social Context: Restoring Resilience as a Capacity for Good Survival

- Situating Resilience in Developmental Context

- Temporal and Contextual Dimensions to Individual Positive Development: A Developmental-Contextual Systems Model of Resilience

- Girls' Violence: Criminality or Resilience?

IV. The Family

- Facilitating Family Resilience: Relational Resources for Positive Youth Development in Conditions of Adversity

- Contexts of Vulnerability and Resilience: Childhood Maltreatment, Cognitive Functioning and Close Relationships

- Averting Child Maltreatment: Individual, Economic, Social and Community Resources that Promote Resilient Parenting

- Caring Relationships: How to Promote Resilience in Challenging Times

- Young People, Their Families and Social Supports: Understanding Resilience with Complexity Theory

V. The School

- Local Resources and Distal Decisions: The Political Ecology of Resilience

- Caring Teachers: Teacher-youth Transactions to Promote

Michael Ungar, Ph.D. is the author of 9 books and more than 70 articles and book chapters. His works include The We Generation:Raising Socially Responsible Kids, Too Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive, Counseling in Challenging Contexts,and Strengths-based Counseling with At-risk Youth. He has practiced for over 25 years as a Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist with children and families in child welfare, mental health, educational and correctional settings. Now a University Research Professor, and Professor at the School of Social Work, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, he leads an international team of resilience researchers that spans more than a dozen countries on six continents. In addition to his research and writing interests,Dr. Ungar maintains a small family therapy practice for troubled children, youth and their families.