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Community Planning to Foster Resilience in Children /

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Children live in a world of ever-increasing stress factors, including global terrorism, pervasive exposure to violence, increasing substance use, and economic and social instability. To help them maneuver successfully through such a challenging world to adulthood, community-based resilience interven...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clauss-Ehlers, Caroline S.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Weist, Mark D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
Subjects:
Philosophy (General)
Developmental psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction: Advancing Community Involvement and Planning to Promote Resilience in Youth from Diverse Communities
  • 2. A Brief History of Resilience
  • 3. Re-Inventing Resilience
  • 4. Sacred Spaces: The Role of Context in American Indian Youth Development
  • 5. Risk and Resilience in Latino Youth
  • 6. Building Strengths in Inner City African-American Children: The Task and Promise of Schools
  • 7. Resilience in the Asian Context
  • 8. Risk and Resilience during the Teenage Years for Diverse Youth
  • 9. A Global Perspective on Youth Outreach
  • 10. Responses to Terrorism
  • 11. Environmental Factors that Foster Resilience for Medically Handicapped Children
  • 12. Fostering Resilience among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
  • 13. Clinical and Institutional Interventions and Children's Resilience and Recovery from Sexual Abuse
  • 14. School Strategies to Prevent and Address Youth Gang Involvement
  • 15. Promoting Resilience in Military Children and Adolescents
  • 16. Applying Research on Resilience to Enhance School-Based Prevention: The Promoting Resilient Children Initiative
  • 17. Educational Resilience in Life's Second Decade
  • 18. Enhancing Child and Adolescent Resilience through Faith-Community Connections
  • 19. A Whole-School Approach to Mental Health Promotion: The Australian MindMatters Program
  • 20. Home, School, and Community: Catalysts to Resilience
  • 21. Enhancing Student Resilience through Innovative Partnerships
  • 22. Resilience-Building Prevention Programs that Work.