Promoting Resilience and Wellbeing in Children and Young People

Carmel Cefai

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Pages:: 15–31

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507654_002

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Abstract

The resilience perspective is concerned with the protection of vulnerable and marginalised children from exclusion, bullying, abuse, disadvantage, discrimination and other barriers in their development by focusing on their strengths and assets. It seeks to identify those processes which provide protection for such children and facilitate their healthy development, academic success and social and emotional competence. The theoretical framework of this chapter is based on a strengths-based, inclusive approach to resilience enhancement, with all children being equipped with the resources they need to overcome disadvantage and thrive within a culture of solidarity and support. This chapter will first describe the emergence of the resilience field as a strengths based perspective in contrast to the risk and deficit approach, and then define resilience within a transactional, systems perspective. It then presents the waves of research which have characterised the field from its initial development to recent, innovative developments, illustrating with case studies for each wave of research. It concludes with a critical examination of the construct of resilience, with suggestions for further research to advance the field.

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Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field

Series: Studies in Inclusive Education, Volume: 51

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004507654

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 02 Mar 2022

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- Education

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Acknowledgements

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Adolescents and Emerging Adults

Chapter 1 Promoting Resilience and Wellbeing in Children and Young People

Chapter 2 “Teachers Teach Me, You Help Me Grow!”

Chapter 3 Preparing Our Students to Leap

Chapter 4 Social Wellbeing as a Contributor to Young People’s Leisure

Part 2 Professional Issues

Chapter 5 Promoting Wellbeing

Chapter 6 Reflective Practice and Reflexivity for Developing Practitioner Wellbeing

Part 3 Gender Perspectives

Chapter 7 Women and Substance Use

Chapter 8 Re-writing Motherhood

Chapter 9 Desperately Seeking Wellbeing

Part 4 Systemic Perspectives

Chapter 10 Civil Society Should Be a Strong Political Force

Chapter 11 Families and Poverty in European Malta

Part 5 Reflections on Wellbeing

Chapter 12 Translating Transcultural Wellbeing into Practice

Chapter 13 Residents’ Perceptions of Dignity in Nursing Homes for Older Persons

Chapter 14 Wellbeing in Corrections

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