Nurturing hidden resilience in troubled youth /

Nurturing hidden resilience in troubled youth /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ungar, Michael, 1963-
Imprint:	Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Problem youth -- Psychology. Problem youth -- Behavior modification. Resilience (Personality trait) Juvenile Delinquency -- psychology. Adaptation, Psychological. Behavior Therapy. Problem youth -- Behavior modification. Problem youth -- Psychology. Resilience (Personality trait) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11177058

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ISBN:	9781442677975 144267797X 1281994421 9781281994424 0802087701 0802085652 9780802087706 9780802085658 9786611994426 6611994424
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-350). English. Print version record.
Summary:	"Michael Ungar's Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth is the first text in its field to examine resilience as a social construct. It offers a comprehensive theory of resilience and a model for the application of this theory to direct practice with high-risk youth in clinical, residential, and community settings." "Ungar's analysis of resilience and his approach to intervention focus on youth who are labelled dangerous, deviant, delinquent, and disordered. He explores how these youth discover and maintain well-being through discursive empowerment. Using detailed case studies, Ungar shows how high-risk youth explain their problematic behaviours, such as gang affiliations and drug and alcohol use, as strategic ways to compose stories about themselves that bring them experiences of control, strength, and acceptance." "Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth challenges media stereotypes and offers an alternative approach to social work practice. Timely and original, the work gives voice to troubled youth themselves, and suggests that we build upon, rather than resist, their constructions of resilience as a method of effective intervention."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Ungar, Michael, 1963- Nurturing hidden resilience in troubled youth. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2004 9780802087706

Table of Contents:

The social construction of resilience
Resilience under study
Progressive dilemmas in resilience research
Discursive resistance and postmodern youth
From experiences of power to mental health
Constructions of resilience in out-of-home placements
Professional interventions to build narratives of resilience
Volunteers, guides, and paraprofessionals
Mental health, resilience, and discursive power.