具体描述
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 illness or substance abuse; still others live amid chronic family discord or child abuse. For some of these children, life's difficulties become overwhelming. Their enduring trauma can lead to a downward spiral, until their behavioral and emotional problems become lifelong barriers to success and wellbeing. Almost no one today would deny that the world is sometimes an inhospitable, even dangerous, place for our youth. Yet most children - even those living in high-risk environments - appear to persevere. Some even flourish. And this begs the question: why, in the face of such great odds, do these children become survivors rather than casualties of their environments? For many decades, scholars have pursued answers to the mysteries of resilience. Now, having culled several decades of research findings, the editors of this volume offer an in-depth, leading-edge description and analysis of Resilience in Children, Families and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy. The book is divided into three readily accessible sections that both define the scope and limits of resilience as well as provide hands-on programs that families, neighborhoods, and communities can implement. In addition, several chapters provide real-life intervention strategies and social policies that can be readily put into practice. The goal: to enable children to develop more effective problem-solving skills, to help each child to improve his or her self-image, and to define ways in which role models can affect positive outcomes throughout each child's lifetime. For researchers, clinicians, and students, "Resilience in Children, Families and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy" is an essential addition to their library. It provides practical information to inform greater success in the effort to encourage resilience in all children and to achieve positive youth development.
作者简介
目录信息
- Resilience Research: Past Present, and Future.
- Resilience in Context.
- Disruptive Behaviors: Should We Foster or Prevent Resiliency?
- The Resilience Revolution: A Paradigm Shift for Research and Policy?
- Part II: Resilience Enhancement Programs for High-Risk Children, Families, and Youth.
- Creating Effective School-Based Interventions for Pregnant Teenagers.
- Dating Relationships among At-Risk Adolescents: An Opportunity for Resilience?
- Building Strengths and Resilience among At-Risk Mothers and Their Children: A Community-Based Prevention Partnership.
- Part III: Expanding Resilience Programs to Include Neighborhoods and Communities.
- The Social Transformation of Environments and the Promotion of Resilience in Children.
- Promoting Resilience in the Inner City: Families as a Venue for Protection, Support, and Opportunity.
- A Community-Based Approach to Promoting Resilience in Young Children, Their Families, and Their Neighborhoods.
- Steps Toward Community-Level Resilience: Community Adoption of Science-Based Prevention Programming.- Index.
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作为一位长期关注公共政策的观察者，这本书给我带来的启发主要集中在“自下而上”的社区营造理念上。它深刻地揭示了，许多看似强大的外部支持系统，往往不如一个紧密连接的邻里网络来得有效和持久。书中对“社会资本”的论述非常接地气，通过案例展示了信任如何在危机时刻迅速转化为有效的行动力。我发现，作者对“赋权”（Empowerment）的理解，超越了简单的资源分配，而聚焦于个体对自身环境的掌控感。然而，书中对于大型制度性障碍的分析略显不足，它完美地展示了微观层面的韧性是如何运作的，但对于那些根深蒂固的、需要自上而下的政策干预才能解决的结构性不公，则着墨不多，显得有些“回避”了宏大叙事的挑战。这使得本书更像是一本鼓舞人心的“行动手册”，而非一份全面的社会问题诊断书。
