Abstract
This chapter highlights a strengths-based social psychological approach to resiliency to further clarify critical cultural diversity, ecological and life span development considerations. The chapter is organized around four major sections with particular emphasis on the importance of resiliency research on marginalized racial–ethnic populations. First, the chapter focuses on the complexity of the resiliency concept and related research perspectives on psychopathology, vulnerability, risk, protection, and strengths. Second, an integrative role strain and adaptation approach to resiliency is outlined including major theoretical propositions, assessment issues, and implications for preventive intervention. Third, we emphasize the importance of understanding the socio-cultural context of resiliency including diversity, multilevel, and life span issues. Finally, a reciprocal translation model is presented to promote the importance of bridging strengths-based resiliency scholarship with policy-relevant intervention research and assessment systems. Reciprocal translation can help to better understand and prevent complex resiliency challenges among marginalized racial–ethnic populations faced with intergenerational poverty, environmental threats, and chronic adversity in major life roles. In the twenty-first century, such resiliency challenges among marginalized populations are increasingly exacerbated by globalization, immigration, and growing economic disparities within diversifying nations, communities, and organizations.
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Throughout this chapter we link the terms “racial/ethnic” because of the complex interplay between these two diversity constructs—especially in the USA. Generally, ethnic groups of all national origins within the USA are also racially classified as either white (European phenotype) or black (African phenotype) or increasingly as another racialized category—Native American/Indian, Hispanic/Latino, Asian/Pacific, Middle Eastern/Arab, etc. At other times, we use these two terms separately when greater conceptual specificity and clarity are needed to amplify the discussion. Hence, ethnic refers to the national, social, and/or cultural heritage of a group. In contrast, the increasingly contested construct of race has less to do with biology and more to do with racialized systems of social stratification, caste-like inequality, and related group ideologies, interests, and policies.
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Bowman, P.J. (2013). A Strengths-Based Social Psychological Approach to Resiliency: Cultural Diversity, Ecological, and Life Span Issues. In: Prince-Embury, S., Saklofske, D. (eds) Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults. The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4939-3_21
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