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Toward an African definition of resilience: a rural South African cummunity’s view of resilient Basotho youth
(Sage Publications, 2013)
Resilience, or adaptive behavior in the face of adversity, has recently come to be understood as a phenomenon that should not be uniformly conceptualized across contexts and cultures. This emerging understanding has urged ...
Positive adjustment to poverty: how family communities encourage resilience in traditional African contexts
(SAGE Publications, 2013)
In the main, resilience literature explains positive adjustment to adversity in ways that are biased towards western culture. Although studies of resilience among African Americans have reported the importance of kinship, ...
Educational psychology and resilience in developing contexts: a rejoinder to Toland and Carrigan (2011)
(Sage publication, 2013)
If educational psychologists wish to make a meaningful difference as practitioners, both to the children they work with and the ecologies these children come from, then, knowledge and application of resilience theory is ...
Patterns of service use, individual and contextual risk factors, and resilience among adolescents using multiple psychosocial services
(ELSEVIER, 2013)
Background: Very little research has examined the relationship between resilience, risk, and the service use patterns of adolescents with complex needs who use multiple formal and mandated services such as child welfare, ...
Community-researcher liaisons: the pathways to resilience project advisory panel
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2013)
The Pathways to Resilience Project is an ongoing, community-based participatory research (CBPR) project. Its express focus is the exploration of how at-risk youths use formal services and/or informal, naturally occurring ...