Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth

by Michael Ungar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802085652
• ISBN13: 9780802085658
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher