The Social Ecology of Resilience Quotes

“concentrates on the positive, rather than the negative, pole. Insofar as that is so, it mainly constitutes a relabeling. Instead of studying the risks associated with family conflict, the protective effects of family harmony can be the focus.”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“During recent years, there has been a marked tendency for researchers, clinicians, and policy-makers to shift their focus from risk to resilience (Mohaupt, 2008). Part of the motivation for their shift was”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“The study of resilience is necessarily contextual because it always involves the presence of risk. Unlike the study of strengths or assets which are promotive regardless of the”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“and the amount of protection afforded a child by a resource (like an alcohol and drug prevention program) cannot be predicted without also accounting for the nature of the child’s strengths and challenges”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“Processes associated with resilience (whether characterized by adaptive or maladaptive coping) (Bottrell, 2009) are always dependent upon the factors that trigger and sustain them.”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“showed in their analysis of data from a household survey in four geographic areas of the United States that IQ affects coping positively for high-risk children but has less effect on the coping skills of children at lower risk.”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“To account for this complexity, I borrow from Kurt Lewin’s (1951) work in the early 1950s, his expression B  =  f(P, E) which says that behavior is a function of the person in interaction with his or her environment.”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“outcomes negotiated within discursive spaces that influence our judgment of what is and is not experienced as an indicator of well-being under stress in different contexts.”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“own survival shows how important the arts can be to young people’s ability to cope with extreme adversity and recover later from the trauma of war.”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“need to capture what people mean when they say ‘doing well when facing adversity’.”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“between vulnerable individuals who lack opportunities for growth and the influence of environments that facilitate or inhibit resilience-promoting processes.”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“expressed, or the complexity of interactions between elements of our environment, makes the science of resilience messy. Suddenly there are many more variables to consider. Simple associations between traits like emotional regulation”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

“individuals have, rather than as a process that families, schools, communities and governments facilitate. Because resilience is related to the presence of social risk factors (we can only speak of resilience in the presence of at least one stressor),”
― Michael (Ed.) Ungar, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice