Youth Resilience and Culture

Part I. The complex interactions of resilience and culture

Chapter 1. Pathways to Resilience in Context; Margaret O'Dougherty Wright and Ann S.Masten

Chapter 2. Understanding Cultural Contexts and their Relationship to Resilience Processes; Linda C. Theron and Linda Liebenberg

Chapter 3. Resilience and Culture: The Diversity of Protective Processes and Positive Adaptation; Michael Ungar

Part II. Illustrative (Case) Studies: Youth Resilience and Culture

Chapter 4. Cultural Pathways to Resilience: Opportunities and Obstacles as Recalled by Black South African Students; Linda C. Theron and Nareadi Phasha

Chapter 5. Resilience among Zimbabwean Youths with Orphanhood; Elias Mpofu, Nancy Ruhode, Megan M. Mutepfa, James January and John Mapfumo

Chapter 6. The Interaction between Culture, Resilience, Risks and Outcomes: A New Zealand Study; Jackie Sanders & Robyn Munford

Chapter 7. Cultural Pathways to Resilience: Informal Social Support of At-Risk Youth in China; Guoxiu Tian & Xiying Wang

Chapter 8. "It's Just Part of My Clture": Understanding Language and Land in the Resilience Processes of Aboriginal Youth; Linda Liebenberg, Janice Ikeda and Michele Wood

Chapter 9. Stigma, Stereotypes and Resilience Identities: The Relationship between Identity Processes and Resilience Processes among Black American Adolescents; Davido Dupree, Tirzah R. Spencer, and Margaret Beale Spencer

Chapter 10. White Out: The Invisibility of White North American Culture and Resilience Processes; Linda Liebenberg, Patrick Russell and Michael Ungar

Chapter 11. Deaf culture and youth resilience in diverse American Communities; Elizabeth A. Moore and Donna M. Mertens

Chapter 12. Barriers to Resilience Processes: Understanding the Experiences and Challenges of Former Child Soldiers Integrating into Canadian Society; Shelly Whitman and Linda Liebenberg

Chapter 13. Effects of Microcultural Environments of Violence on Resilient Responses among Adolescents

Linda Theron, D.Ed. (Educational Psychology), is professor in the Faculty of Humanities, North-West University, South Africa.  Her research explores why, and how, some South African youth adjust well to poverty, orphanhood, and/or learning difficulties, and how sociocultural contexts shape their processes of resilience (see www.Lindatheron.org / www.optentia.co.za). She is an associate editor of the South African Journal of Education and School Psychology International. In 2013, the Education Association of South Africa awarded her a research medal for her contributions to a richer understanding of resilience processes in South African youth.

Linda Liebenberg, D.Phil., is Co-Director of the Resilience Research Centre, and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University. Her work focuses on the use of elicitation methods and mixed-methods designs in understanding the lives of children and youth living in challenging contexts, with a focus on resilience processes. Her work also includes the design of measurement instruments used with children and youth. She has published and presented internationally on resilience related themes relevant to the understanding of youth across cultures and contexts.  Her publications include the two co-edited volumes (with Michael Ungar, Ph.D.) Researching Resilience and Resilience in Action.

Michael Ungar, Ph.D., is the Killam Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University, Network Director, CYCC Network, and Co-Director of the Resilience Research Centre. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and 11 books on the topic of resilience and its application to clinical and community work with children and families with complex needs (the Social Ecological Approach to counseling). His latest work includes a clinical textbook Counseling in Challenging Contexts, an edited volume of international papers, The Social Ecology of