Resilience in children, families, and communities : linking context to practice and policy / edited by Ray DeV. Peters, Bonnie Leadbeater, and Robert J. McMahon.

"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...

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Corporate Authors: Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science Banff, Alta., SpringerLink ebooks - Behavioral Science (2005)
Other Authors: Leadbeater, Bonnie J. Ross, 1950-, McMahon, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1953-, Peters, Ray DeV., 1942-
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2005.
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Online Access:Springer eBooks
Table of Contents:
  • The Conceptual and Empirical Framework for Linking Resilience to Intervention and Policy:
  • Resilience Research / Emmy E. Werner
  • Resilience in Context / Jennifer R. Riley, Ann S. Masten
  • Disruptive Behaviors / Richard E. Tremblay
  • The Resilience Revolution / Bonnie Leadbeater, Dan Dodgen, Andrea Solarz
  • Resilience Enhancement Programs for High-Risk Children, Families, and Youth:
  • Creating Effective School-Based Interventions for Pregnant Teenagers / Victoria Seitz, Nancy H. Apfel
  • Dating Relationships among At-Risk Adolescents / Katreena Scott, Laura-Lynn Stewart, David Wolfe
  • Building Strengths and Resilience among At-Risk Mothers and Their Children / Cynthia J. Schellenbach, Kathleen Strader, Francesca Pernice-Duca, Marianne Key-Carniak
  • Expanding Resilience Programs to Include Neighborhoods and Communities:
  • The Social Transformation of Environments and the Promotion of Resilience in Children / Kenneth I. Maton
  • Promoting Resilience in the Inner City / Deborah Gorman-Smith, Patrick Tolan, David Henry
  • A Community-Based Approach to Promoting Resilience in Young Children, Their Families, and Their Neighborhoods / Ray DeV. Peters
  • Steps Toward Community-Level Resilience / Michael W. Arthur, Renita R. Glaser, J. David Hawkins.
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