Multisystemic Resilience

Michael Ungar, Ph.D., is a Family Therapist and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University where he holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Child, Family and Community Resilience. Since 2002, Dr. Ungar has directed the Resilience Research Centre, designing multisite longitudinal research and evaluation projects in more than a dozen low, middle, and high-income countries, with much of that work focused on the resilience of marginalized children and families, and adult populations experiencing mental health challenges. Dr. Ungar has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject of resilience and is the author of 15 books for mental health professionals, researchers, and general audiences including Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook for Theory and Practice, and Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs. His blog, Nurturing Resilience, can be read onPsychology Today's website.

This volume offers an excellent, comprehensive overview of resilience ... Many concepts discussed here were developed in either ecology or psychology and are brought together in a thorough, up-to-date collection.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction: Why a Volume on Multisystemic Resilience?Michael Ungar1 Modeling Multisystemic Resilience: Connecting Biological, Psychological, Social, and Ecological Adaptation in Contexts of AdversityMichael UngarSection 1: Human Biology and Social Environments2 Bringing a Neurobiological Perspective to ResilienceNicole Bush and Danielle S. Roubinov3 Risk and Resilience in Pregnancy and BirthCecily Young and Susan Ayers4 Promoting Resilience Within Public Health Approaches for Indigenous CommunitiesChristopher Mushquash, Elaine Toombs, Kristy Kowatch, Jessie Lund, Lauren Dalicandro, and Kara Boles5 Narrative Resilience: Neurological and Psychotherapeutic ReflectionsBoris CyrulnikSection 2: Psychological Processes in Challenging Contexts6 Resilience in Developmental Systems: Principles, Pathways, and Protective Processes in Research and PracticeAnn Masten7 Stressor Appraisal as an Explanation for the Influence of Extra-Individual Factors on Psychological ResilienceRaffael Kalisch and Miriam Kampa8 Resilience in the Salutogenic Model of HealthMaurice B. Mittelmark9 People, Perceptions, and Process: Multisystemic Resilience in Social-Ecological SystemsLilian Alessa and Andrew Kliskey10 Social Ecology of Police ResilienceMehdi Ghazinour, and Arian RostamiSection 3: Education Systems, Arts, and Well-Being11 Indigenous Education, Well-Being, and Resilience-A Systemic ApproachJanya McCalman and Roxanne Bainbridge12 A Transactional, Whole-School Approach to ResilienceCarmel Cefai13 Learning About Systemic Resilience From Studies of Student ResilienceLinda TheronSection 4: Family and Kinship Systems14 Family Resilience: A Dynamic Systemic FrameworkFroma Walsh15 What Does It Take for Early Relationships to Remain Secure in the Face of Adversity? Attachment as a Unit of ResilienceAna Berástegui Pedro-Viejo and Carlos Pitillas SalváSection 5: Community Well-Being16 Resilience to Violent Extremism and Terrorism: A Multisystemic AnalysisMichele Grossman17 The Creation and Recreation of Borderlands Among Indigenous Peoples: A Kamentza's Journey of ResiliencePilar Hernández-Wolfe and Santos Jamioy Muchavisoy18 A Socioecological Developmental Systems Approach for the Study of Human ResilienceIngrid SchoonSection 6: Recovery and Resilience in Humanitarian Settings19 Systemic Resilience and Peacebuilding in Humanitarian CrisesCatherine Panter-Brick20 Toward a Multisystemic Resilience Framework for Migrant YouthQiaobing Wu and Ying Ou21 Psychological Resilience in Response to Adverse Experiences: An Integrative Developmental Perspective in the Context of War and DisplacementCassandra M. Popham, Michael Pluess, and Fiona S. McEwen22 The Assessment of Multisystemic Resilience in Conflict-Affected PopulationsAlexandros Lordos and Daniel HyslopSection 7: Organizational Processes23 The Multisystem Approach to Resilience in the Context of OrganizationsMonique Crane24 Resilience Engineering for Sociotechnical Safety ManagementRiccardo Patriarca25 Transformative Social Innovation and Multisystemic Resilience: Three Case StudiesKatharine McGowan and Francis WestleySection 8: Legal, Policy, and Economic Systems26 Resilience of Legal Systems: Toward Adaptive GovernanceJ. B. Ruhl, Barbara Cosens, and Niko Soininen27 Thinking Systemically About Transitional Justice, Legal Systems, and ResilienceJanine Natalya Clark28 Understanding Societal Resilience: The Case for Engaged ScholarshipCaroline van Dullemen, Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Joris Rijbroek, and Marieke W. Slootman29 Decolonial Enactments of Human Resilience: Stories of Palestinian Families From Beyond the WallDevin G. Atallah30 The Economics of Multisystemic ResilienceGabriella Conti and Tatiana ParedesSection 9: Architecture and Urban Design31 The Embodied Multisystemic Resilience of Architecture and Built FormBrian McGrath and Dongxue Lei32 The Social Contexts of Resilient ArchitectureTerri Peters33 Resilience in Postdisaster Reconstruction of Human Settlement: An Architectural PerspectiveHaorui WuSection 10: Technology and Human Systems34 Design and Engineering of Resilience for Networked Computer SystemsDavid Hutchison, Mark Rouncefield, Antonios Gouglidis, and Tom Anderson35 Patterns for Achieving Resilience in Engineered and Organizational SystemsScott Jackson, Victoria Hailey, Keith D. Willett, Timothy Ferris, and Eric A. SpeckingSection 11: Social Ecological Systems36 Social and Ecological Systems Resilience and IdentityFrancois Bousquet, Tara Quinn, Clara Therville, Raphaël Mathevet, Olivier Barreteau, Bruno Bonté, and Chloé Guerbois37 Adaptive Management of Ecosystem Services for Multisystemic Resilience: Iterative Feedback Between Application and TheoryKatharine F. E. Hogan, Kirsty L. Nash, and Elena Bennett38 Conceptualizing Cascading Effects of Resilience in Human-Water SystemsLi Xu, Feng Mao, James S. Famiglietti, John W. Pomeroy, and Claudia Pahl-WostlConclusion: A Summary of Emerging Trends39 Multisystemic Resilience: An Emerging Perspective From Social-Ecological SystemsKatrina BrownIndex