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2010 Conference Papers and Presentations

The following papers and presentation are available to download (files open in new window):

Quantitative Resilience Research Across Cultures and Contexts, (Part A, Part B, Article) Fons van de Vijver

Resilience: Causal Pathways and Social Ecology, Sir Michael Rutter, June 9, 2010

The Social Ecology of Resilience: Positive Development among Children and Youth in Adverse Contexts, Ungar, Liebenberg and Co-Investigators of the RRC

Developing a Culturally Relevant Measure of Resilience, and Can Resilience Predict Level of Hopelessness When Controlling for Stressful Life Events, Mood and Personality, Odin Hjemdal

Social Justice and the Epistemic Ecology of Young People’s Resilience: Four Questions About Listening, Dorothy Bottrell 

Keys to Family Resilience, Froma Walsh

Resilience and Correlated Concepts: A Physicist View, Piotr Trzesniak

Resilience as a Relational Competence Construct, G. Gianesini

Resilience and a Strong Ethnic Identity: Increasing Aboriginal students' academic achievement (coming soon!), Chris Brown

Contact Info

Resilience Research Centre
School of Social Work
Dalhousie University
6420 Coburg Road
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, CA

Tel: (902) 494-3050
Email: rrc@dal.ca

About Resilience

Building on our studies across many different countries of the social and physical ecologies (environments) that make resilience more likely, we define resilience as:

Resilience is the capacity of people to navigate to the resources they need to overcome challenges, and their capacity to negotiate for these resources so that they are provided in ways that are meaningful.

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