Pathways to Resilence Conference
The Resilience Research Centre (RRC) brings together leaders in the field of resilience research from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Our partners across six continents (point at any dot on the map to learn more about each one) employ methodologically diverse approaches to the study of how children, youth and families cope with many different kinds of adversity. The RRC’s focus is the study of the social and physical ecologies that make resilience more likely to occur. The research we do is looking beyond individual factors to aspects of a young person’s family, neighborhood, wider community, school, culture and the political and economic forces that exert an influence on children’s development in challenging contexts.
Represented are experts from many fields, including social work, sociology, psychiatry, health statistics and measurement, psychology, medical anthropology, education, medicine, theology, child and youth studies, and epidemiology. Together, under the direction of Dr. Michael Ungar at Dalhousie University, we are trying to understand both similarities and differences across cultures and contexts in how resilience is understood and the ways we can intervene to help children and youth who face significant levels of risk.
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Editors: Sandy Alfonso, Sandra Lenore Gutierrez & Meiko Assoon. Design: William Szilveszter