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 Culture : 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 amongAdolescents and Young Adults in the City of Itagui, Colombia; Wendy Kliewer, Roberto Meijia and Yolanda Torres. - Part III. Researching Resilience across Cultures. - Chapter 14. The Value of Keeping an Open Eye for Methodological Issues in Research on Resilience and Culture; Jia He and Fons J. R. Van de Vijver. - Chapter 15. Innovative Qualitative Explorations of Culture and Resilience; Linda Liebenberg and Linda C. Theron. - Chapter 16. Ethical Principles in Resilience Research: Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity and Responsibility; Laurie Lali D. McCubbin and Jennifer Moniz. - Part IV. Conclusion. - Chapter 17. Culture and resilience: Next steps for theory and practice; Catherine Panter-Brick.