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Print Price: $91.50

Format:
Hardback
848 pp.
183 mm x 257 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190095888

Publication date:
March 2021

Imprint: OUP US


Multisystemic Resilience

Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of Change

Edited by Michael Ungar

Multisystemic Resilience brings together for the first time in one volume a wide range of resilience scholars who have been wrestling with how to explain processes of recovery, adaptation, and transformation in contexts of change and adversity. With contributions from psychologists, epigeneticists, ecologists, architects, disaster specialists, engineers, sociologists, social workers, and public health researchers among others, this innovative volume creates a platform for an interdisciplinary conversation about how to effectively research resilience across systems. Even more, it explores how to identify possible solutions to problems that threaten the physical and mental health of individuals, the wellbeing of our communities, and the sustainability of our planet. Every chapter provides a detailed review of systemic resilience from one disciplinary perspective, drawing from cutting edge research and case studies. Together these chapters show that considering the resilience of multiple systems at once is instrumental to understanding the processes of change and sustainability.

Readership : Researchers across the biological, behavioral, and social sciences and those interested in sustainability, disaster management and human geography.

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Why a Volume on Multisystemic Resilience?
Michael Ungar
1. Modeling Multisystemic Resilience: Connecting Biological, Psychological, Social, and Ecological Adaptation in Contexts of Adversity
Michael Ungar
Section 1: Human Biology and Social Environments
2.Bringing a Neurobiological Perspective to Resilience
Nicole Bush and Danielle S. Roubinov
3. Risk and Resilience in Pregnancy and Birth
Cecily Young and Susan Ayers
4. Promoting Resilience Within Public Health Approaches for Indigenous Communities
Christopher Mushquash, Elaine Toombs, Kristy Kowatch, Jessie Lund, Lauren Dalicandro, and Kara Boles
5. Narrative Resilience: Neurological and Psychotherapeutic Reflections
Boris Cyrulnik
Section 2: Psychological Processes in Challenging Contexts
6. Resilience in Developmental Systems: Principles, Pathways, and Protective Processes in Research and Practice
Ann Masten
7. Stressor Appraisal as an Explanation for the Influence of Extra-Individual Factors on Psychological Resilience
Raffael Kalisch and Miriam Kampa
8. Resilience in the Salutogenic Model of Health
Maurice B. Mittelmark
9. People, Perceptions, and Process: Multisystemic Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Lilian Alessa and Andrew Kliskey
10. Social Ecology of Police Resilience
Mehdi Ghazinour, and Arian Rostami
Section 3: Education Systems, Arts, and Well-Being
11. Indigenous Education, Well-Being, and Resilience-A Systemic Approach
Janya McCalman and Roxanne Bainbridge
12. A Transactional, Whole-School Approach to Resilience
Carmel Cefai
13. Learning About Systemic Resilience From Studies of Student Resilience
Linda Theron
Section 4: Family and Kinship Systems
14. Family Resilience: A Dynamic Systemic Framework
Froma Walsh
15. What Does It Take for Early Relationships to Remain Secure in the Face of Adversity? Attachment as a Unit of Resilience
Ana Berástegui Pedro-Viejo and Carlos Pitillas Salvá
Section 5: Community Well-Being
16. Resilience to Violent Extremism and Terrorism: A Multisystemic Analysis
Michele Grossman
17. The Creation and Recreation of Borderlands Among Indigenous Peoples: A Kamentza's Journey of Resilience
Pilar Hernández-Wolfe and Santos Jamioy Muchavisoy
18. A Socioecological Developmental Systems Approach for the Study of Human Resilience
Ingrid Schoon
Section 6: Recovery and Resilience in Humanitarian Settings
19. Systemic Resilience and Peacebuilding in Humanitarian Crises
Catherine Panter-Brick
20. Toward a Multisystemic Resilience Framework for Migrant Youth
Qiaobing Wu and Ying Ou
21. Psychological Resilience in Response to Adverse Experiences: An Integrative Developmental Perspective in the Context of War and Displacement
Cassandra M. Popham, Michael Pluess, and Fiona S. McEwen
22. The Assessment of Multisystemic Resilience in Conflict-Affected Populations
Alexandros Lordos and Daniel Hyslop
Section 7: Organizational Processes
23. The Multisystem Approach to Resilience in the Context of Organizations
Monique Crane
24. Resilience Engineering for Sociotechnical Safety Management
Riccardo Patriarca
25. Transformative Social Innovation and Multisystemic Resilience: Three Case Studies
Katharine McGowan and Francis Westley
Section 8: Legal, Policy, and Economic Systems
26. Resilience of Legal Systems: Toward Adaptive Governance
J. B. Ruhl, Barbara Cosens, and Niko Soininen
27. Thinking Systemically About Transitional Justice, Legal Systems, and Resilience
Janine Natalya Clark
28. Understanding Societal Resilience: The Case for Engaged Scholarship
Caroline van Dullemen, Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Joris Rijbroek, and Marieke W. Slootman
29. Decolonial Enactments of Human Resilience: Stories of Palestinian Families From Beyond the Wall
Devin G. Atallah
30. The Economics of Multisystemic Resilience
Gabriella Conti and Tatiana Paredes
Section 9: Architecture and Urban Design
31. The Embodied Multisystemic Resilience of Architecture and Built Form
Brian McGrath and Dongxue Lei
32. The Social Contexts of Resilient Architecture
Terri Peters
33. Resilience in Postdisaster Reconstruction of Human Settlement: An Architectural Perspective
Haorui Wu
Section 10: Technology and Human Systems
34. Design and Engineering of Resilience for Networked Computer Systems
David Hutchison, Mark Rouncefield, Antonios Gouglidis, and Tom Anderson
35. Patterns for Achieving Resilience in Engineered and Organizational Systems
Scott Jackson, Victoria Hailey, Keith D. Willett, Timothy Ferris, and Eric A. Specking
Section 11: Social Ecological Systems
36. Social and Ecological Systems Resilience and Identity
Francois Bousquet, Tara Quinn, Clara Therville, Raphaël Mathevet, Olivier Barreteau, Bruno Bonté, and Chloé Guerbois
37. Adaptive Management of Ecosystem Services for Multisystemic Resilience: Iterative Feedback Between Application and Theory
Katharine F. E. Hogan, Kirsty L. Nash, and Elena Bennett
38. Conceptualizing Cascading Effects of Resilience in Human-Water Systems
Li Xu, Feng Mao, James S. Famiglietti, John W. Pomeroy, and Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Conclusion: A Summary of Emerging Trends
39. Multisystemic Resilience: An Emerging Perspective From Social-Ecological Systems
Katrina Brown
Index

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Michael Ungar, Ph.D., is a Family Therapist and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University where he holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Child, Family and Community Resilience. Since 2002, Dr. Ungar has directed the Resilience Research Centre, designing multisite longitudinal research and evaluation projects in more than a dozen low, middle, and high-income countries, with much of that work focused on the resilience of marginalized children and families, and adult populations experiencing mental health challenges. Dr. Ungar has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject of resilience and is the author of 15 books for mental health professionals, researchers, and general audiences including Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook for Theory and Practice, and Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs. His blog, Nurturing Resilience, can be read on Psychology Today's website.

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Special Features

  • Brings together scholars from such a diverse range of backgrounds, providing a complete survey of the science of resilience.
  • Translates the theory of resilience and across disciplines to address complex problems facing individuals, communities, and natural environments.
  • Cites a vast number of studies throughout the volume, including research that taps into local knowledge, Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as the empiricism of western science.
  • This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.