1. Introduction to the volume / Michael Ungar 2. Social ecologies and their contribution to resilience / Michael Ungar 3. Resilience : causal pathways and social ecology / Michael Rutter 4. Theory and measurement of resilience : views from development / Lewis P. Lipsitt and Jack Demick 5. Resilience and children's work in Brazil : lessons from physics for psychology / Piotr Trzesniak, Renata M. C. Libório, and Silvia H. Koller 6. An interview with Macalane Malindi : the impact of education and changing social policy on resilience during apartheid and post apartheid in South Africa / Macalane Malindi and Michael Ungar 7. An interview with Bill Strickland : how community-based adult educational facilities can lift people out of poverty in urban America / Bill Strickland and Michael Ungar 8. An interview with Jude Simpson : growing beyond a life of abuse and gang involvement in New Zealand / Jude Simpson and Michael Ungar 9. An interview with Vicki Durrant : creating a community program for high-risk aboriginal youth in Canada's north / Vicki Durrant and Michael Ungar 10. An interview with Arn Chorn-Pond : helping children in Cambodia through the revival of traditional music and art / Arn Chorn-Pond and Michael Ungar 11. From neuron to social context : restoring resilience as a capacity for good survival / Martha Kent 12. Situating resilience in developmental context / Laura M. Supkoff, Jennifer Puig, and L. Alan Sroufe 13. Temporal and contextual dimensions to individual positive development : a developmental-contextual systems model of resilience / Ingrid Schoon 14. Girls' violence : criminality or resilience? / Jean Hine and Joanna Welford 15. Facilitating family resilience : relational resources for positive youth development in conditions of adversity / Froma Walsh 16. Contexts of vulnerability and resilience : childhood maltreatment, cognitive functioning and close relationships / Christine Wekerle, Randall Waechter, and Ronald Chung 17. Averting child maltreatment : individual, economic, social, and community resources that promote resilient parenting / Kimberly DuMont, Susan Ehrhard-Dietzel, and Kristen Kirkland 18. Caring relationships : how to promote resilience in challenging times / Gill Windle and Kate M. Bennett 19. Young people, their families and social supports : understanding resilience with complexity theory / Jackie Sanders, Robyn Munford, and Linda Liebenberg 20. Local resources and distal decisions : the political ecology of resilience / Dorothy Bottrell and Derrick Armstrong 21. Caring teachers : teacher-youth transactions to promote resilience / Linda C. Theron and Petra Engelbrecht 22. Children with disabilities and supportive school ecologies / Neerja Sharma and Rekha Sharma Sen 23. Resilience in schools and curriculum design / Nan Henderson 24. How prior social ecologies shape family resilience amongst refugees in U.S. resettlement / Stevan M. Weine, Elise Levin, Leonce Hakizimana, and Gonwo Dahnweih 25. Young people, sexual orientation, and resilience / Rebecca Harvey 26. Community resilience : fostering recovery, sustainability, and growth / Kate Murray and Alex Zautra 27. The social ecology of resilience in war-affected youth : a longitudinal study from Sierra Leone / Theresa S. Betancourt 28. Travelling through social support and youth civic action on a journey towards resilience / Pat Dolan 29. Understanding culture, resilience, and mental health : the production of hope / Catherine Panter-Brick and Mark Eggerman 30. Case study : promoting community resilience with local values--Greenland's Paamiut Asasara / Peter Berliner, Line Natascha Larsen, and Elena de Casas Soberón 31. Toward an ecology of stories : indigenous perspectives on resilience / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Stéphane Dandebeau, Elizabeth Marshall, Morgan Kahentonni Phillips and Karla Jessen Williamson 32. Macro, meso, and micro-perspectives of
