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Resilience in Situational and Cultural Contexts

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The factors and processes that enable child and youth resilience vary across situational and cultural contexts. Even so, many studies of resilience theorize positive adaptation in contextually neutral ways and/or perpetuate resilience accounts that mirror minority world realities. To discourage a continuation of that problematic tendency, this chapter advances an understanding of resilience enablers that are responsive not only to risks but also to social–ecological or contextual dynamics. Drawing mostly on studies of child and youth resilience in majority world contexts, this chapter interrogates resilience enablers’ fit with specific social ecologies, explores unconventional adaptive strategies, and probes the need for resilience enablers to accommodate changing contextual realities. This more nuanced construction of protective factors and processes informs a culturally responsible understanding of resilience and animates strategies towards decolonized theories of successful adaptation to significant stress.

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    Linda Theron

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    Michael Ungar

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Theron, L., Ungar, M. (2023). Resilience in Situational and Cultural Contexts. In: Goldstein, S., Brooks, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Resilience in Children. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14728-9_6

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