A conceptual framework for the neurobiological study of resilience

R Kalisch, MB Müller, O Tüscher - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2015 - cambridge.org
The well-replicated observation that many people maintain mental health despite exposure
to severe psychological or physical adversity has ignited interest in the mechanisms that …

Annual research review: What is resilience within the social ecology of human development?

M Ungar, M Ghazinour, J Richter - Journal of child psychology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background: The development of Bronfenbrenner's bio‐social‐ecological systems model of
human development parallels advances made to the theory of resilience that progressively …

Recognizing the cumulative burden of childhood adversities transforms science and practice for trauma and resilience.

S Hamby, JHL Elm, KH Howell… - American Psychologist, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) studies transformed our
understanding of the true burden of trauma. Notable elements of Felitti and colleagues' …

The CYRM-R: A Rasch-validated revision of the child and youth resilience measure

P Jefferies, L McGarrigle, M Ungar - Journal of Evidence-Based …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) is one of the most popular
measures of resilience. In this paper, we investigate the CYRM using Rasch analysis to …

Practitioner review: diagnosing childhood resilience–a systemic approach to the diagnosis of adaptation in adverse social and physical ecologies

M Ungar - Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background With growing interest in resilience among mental health care providers globally,
there is a need for a simple way to consider the complex interactions that predict adaptive …

The role of positive youth development practices in building resilience and enhancing wellbeing for at-risk youth

J Sanders, R Munford, T Thimasarn-Anwar… - Child abuse & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Services that utilise positive youth development practices (PYD) are thought to improve the
quality of the service experience leading to better outcomes for at-risk youth. This article …

Toward a culturally and contextually sensitive understanding of resilience: Privileging the voices of black, South African young people

LC Theron - Journal of Adolescent Research, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Extant theories of resilience, or the process of adjusting well to adversity, privilege the voices
of minority-world young people. Consequently, the resilience of marginalized, majority-world …

Resilience following child maltreatment: Definitional considerations and developmental variations

S Yoon, K Howell, R Dillard… - … Violence, & Abuse, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Resilience following childhood maltreatment has received substantial empirical attention,
with the number of studies on this construct growing exponentially in the past decade. While …

Resilience after maltreatment: The importance of social services as facilitators of positive adaptation

M Ungar - Child abuse & neglect, 2013 - Elsevier
This practice note will show that resilience among children who have been maltreated is the
result of multiple protective factors, including the quality of the services provided to children …

Neo-liberalism and responsibilisation in the discourse of social service workers

L Liebenberg, M Ungar, J Ikeda - The British Journal of Social …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we explore the ways in which child welfare, adolescent mental health and
juvenile justice service providers engage in processes of responsibilisation. Drawing on …