Researching Resilience /

Researching Resilience / / ed. by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar.

While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders. Researching Resilience challenges this tendency to pathologize, and marks a profound shift in research methods fro...

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MitwirkendeR:
Best, Katherine A.,
Boothroyd, Roger A.,
Cameron, Catherine Ann,
Delongis, Anita,
Este, David,
Liebenberg, Linda,
Maclaurin, Bruce,
Mertens, Donna M.,
Mouton, Johann,
Munford, Robyn,
Sanders, Jackie,
Sitter, Kathleen,
Smith-Osborne, Alexa,
Stiles, Paul G.,
Teram, Eli,
Tweed, Roger G.,
Ungar, Michael,
Wildschut, Lauren,
HerausgeberIn:
Liebenberg, Linda,
Ungar, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2009
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author Biographies
  • Overview
  • 1. Introduction: The Challenges in Researching Resilience
  • 2. The Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Children in International Settings
  • Qualitative Research
  • 3. Participatory Action Research
  • 4. Not Just the Master Discourse: A Case for Holistic Case Studies of Youth Resilience
  • 5. The Use of Image-Based Methods in Research with Youth
  • Quantitative Research
  • 6. Cross-Cultural Resilience Research on Youth: Avoiding Methodological Hazards
  • 7. Use of Meta-Analysis to Study Resilience Factors: An Exemplar
  • Mixes Methods
  • 8. Using Mixed Methods to Understand Youth Resilience
  • 9. Constructing Syntheses: Striving for Convergent Methods for Investigating Youth in Diverse Cultures
  • Application of Methods
  • 10. Playing Catch-Up: Evaluating a Mathematics Intervention for Disadvantaged Learners in South Africa
  • 11. A Sample Research Proposal for a Mixed-Methods Investigation of Resilience: The Pathways to Resilience Project
  • 12. Youth Resilience Research and the Transformative Paradigm

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