Promoting Resilience (eBook, ePUB)

Responding to Adversity, Vulnerability, and Loss
Redaktion: Thompson, Neil; Cox, Gerry R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications across a wide range of fields.

Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of contributors, the book provides a solid foundation for developing a fuller and more holistic picture of the many challenges associated with promoting resilience. Chapters present a range of sociological perspectives that cast light on trauma and vulnerability. Combining theoretical richness with practical insights, chapter authors bring a sociological lens to enrich understanding of loss and adversity.

This volume offers a bedrock of understanding for students, clinicians, and researchers who want to extend and deepen their knowledge of the sociological aspects of overcoming life challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429614590
• Artikelnr.: 58099859

Autorenporträt

Neil Thompson, PhD, DLitt, is an independent writer, educator, and adviser based in Wales (UK). Gerry R. Cox, PhD, is a professor emeritus of sociology/archaeology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, director of the Center for Death Education and Bioethics, and a member of the board of directors of the National Prison Hospice Association (USA).

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Understanding Resilience
Introduction
1. Making Sense of Resilience
Gerry R. Cox and Neil Thompson
Part Two: Developing Resilience
Introduction
2. Resilience in American Indian Communities
Gerry R. Cox
3. "Yma O Hyd": Language and Resilience
Neil Thompson
4. Community Resilience: Reflections on a Community Response to Tragedy
Ros Scott
5. Tragedy and Injustice
Michael Brennan
6. Living with Terrorism
Andy Hau Yan Ho and Geraldine Tan-Ho
7. Violent Crime and Resilience
Gerry R. Cox
8. Mental Health Problems: Getting to the HEART of Resilience
Neil Thompson
9. Alcohol and Drugs: Resilience in Use and Users
Wulf Livingston
10. The Spirit of Resilience through the Prism of Homelessness: Avoiding
Stigma and Labelization
Gerry Skelton
11. Resilience and Poverty
Signe Dobelniece
12. Resilience in the Alice Springs Town Camps
Shirleen Campbell, Maree Corbo and Ronnie Egan
13. "It Takes a Lot of Energy": Surviving Sexism
Tashel C. Bordere, Elizabeth A. Sharp, and Celeste Medina
14. Family Resilience in Dealing with Grief and Loss: A Sociological
Perspective
Paul C. Rosenblatt
15. Building a Narrative of Resilience for Refugees
Christopher Cox
16. Resilience and Older People
Denise Tanner
17. Recovering from Childhood Trauma
Vivienne Dacre
18. Care Leavers and Resilience
Lorna Stabler
19. The Role of the School
Robert G. Stevenson
20. Building Resilience in Organizations: A Challenge for Leaders: What
Happens if Leaders Get Sick?
Rozana Huq
21. Resilience at Work
Neil Thompson
22. Promoting Resilience, Challenging Bullying
Andrew Vitale
23. Resilience and Spirituality: A personal Perspective
Bernard Moss
24. Resilience through Meaning Making
Neil Thompson
25. Resilience and Continuing Bonds
Charles A. Corr and Kenneth J. Doka
26. The Dual Process Model and Resilience
Amy Y. M. Chow
27. The Role of Pastoral Care
Bernard Moss
28. Promoting Resilience in Social Work - From the "Comfort of Strangers"
to Community Empowerment and the "Management of Risk"
Paul Stepney
29. An Exhibition on Resilience for a Time of Grief
Wendy Bowler
30. Compassion and Resilience
Darcy Harris