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Michael Ungar - Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth - 9780802087706 - V9780802087706
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Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth

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Description for Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth hardcover. Timely in subject and original in perspective, Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth challenges what popular media refer to as a 'youth problem.' Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 672.

Michael Ungar's Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth is the first text in its field to examine resilience as a social construct; it offers a comprehensive theory of resilience and a model for the application of this theory to direct practice with high-risk youth in clinical, residential, and community settings.

Ungar's analysis of resilience and approach to intervention focuses on the unique group of youth who are labeled dangerous, deviant, delinquent, and disordered. He explores how these youth discover and maintain well-being through discursive empowerment: using detailed case studies, Ungar finds that high-risk youth explain their problematic behaviours, such as ... Read more

Timely in subject and original in perspective, Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth challenges what popular media refer to as a 'youth problem.' Ungar offers an alternative approach to troubled youth and suggests that we build upon, rather than resist, their constructions of resilience as a method of effective intervention.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802087706
SKU
V9780802087706
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About Michael Ungar
Michael Ungar is a professor in the Department of Social Work at Dalhousie University.

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