Handbook for Working with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts Book

	Foreword
	Introduction : resilience across cultures and contexts
1	Children's risk, resilience, and coping in extreme situations	3
2	Culture and ethnic identity in family resilience : dynamic processes in trauma and transformation of indigenous people	27
3	Lessons learned from poor African American youth : resilient strengths in coping with adverse environments	45
4	Gendered adaptations, resilience, and the perpetration of violence	57
5	The theory of resilience and its application to street children in the minority and majority world	71
6	Beyond resilience : blending wellness and liberation in the helping professions	89
7	Community-based child welfare for aboriginal children : supporting resilience through structural change	105
8	Beetles, bullfrogs, and butterflies : contributions of natural environment to childhood development and resilience	121
9	Methodological challenges in the study of resilience	135
10	Qualitative resilience research : contributions and risks	149
11	Psychosocial health in youth : an international perspective	165
12	Resilience and well-being in developing countries	189
13	The international resilience project : a mixed-methods approach to the study of resilience across cultures	211
14	Israeli youth cope with terror : vulnerability and resilience	229
15	Overcoming adversity with children affected by HIV/AIDS in the indigenous South African cultural context	247
16	Bent but not broken : exploring queer youth resilience	263
17	Psychosocial functioning of children from monogamous and polygamous families : implications for practice	279
18	Strengthening families and communities : system building for resilience	295
19	Professional discourse of social workers working with at-risk young people in Hong Kong : risk or resilience?	313
20	Resilient youth in North East India : the role of faith-based organizations in communities affected by violence	329
21	Alternative approaches to promoting the health and well-being of children : accessing community resources to support resilience	343
22	Respecting aboriginal families : pathways to resilience in custom adoption and family group conferencing	357
23	Social and cultural roots of Russian youth resilience : interventions by the state, society, and the family	371
24	Intercepts of resilience and systems of care	387
25	Youth civic engagement : promise and peril	405
26	Resilience in the Palestinian occupied territories	417
27	Resiliency and young African Canadian males	433
28	Violence prevention programming in Colombia : challenges in project design and fidelity	455