Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "Ungar, Michael"
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Adolescents' precocious and developmentally appropriate contributions to their families' well-being and resilience in five countries
Ungar, Michael; Theron, Linda; Didkowsky, Nora (Wiley, 2011)An exploratory qualitative study of 16 disadvantaged youth in 5 countries suggests that making both precocious and developmentally appropriate contributions to their families' well-being is advantageous to adolescents ... -
Bolstering resilience through teacher-student interaction: Lessons for school psychologists
Liebenberg, Linda; Theron, Linda; Sanders, Jackie; Munford, Robyn; Van Rensburg, Angelique; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Ungar, Michael (Sage, 2016)Schools are often the only formal service provider for young people living in socio-economically marginalized communities, uniquely positioning school staff to support positive psychosocial outcomes of youth living in ... -
A "Day in the Lives" of Four Resilient Youths: Cultural Roots of Resilience
Theron, Linda; Cameron, Catherine Ann; Didkowsky, Nora; Lau, Cindy; Liebenberg, Linda; Ungar, Michael (SAGE Publications, 2011)Grounded in the examples of four impoverished, relocated youths (two Sesotho-speaking orphans in South Africa and two Mexican immigrants in Canada), we explore cultural factors as potential roots of resilience. We triangulate ... -
Using video observation and photo elicitation interviews to understand obscured processes in the lives of youth resilience
Liebenberg, Linda; Ungar, Michael; Theron, Linda (Sage publications, 2014)Despite the increased effort to understand resilience processes in the lives of youth, the homogeneity of a largely westernized concept needs to be challenged in studies by incorporating meanings of resilience more relevant ... -
Visual perspectives on majority-world adolescent thriving
Cameron, Catherine Ann; Theron, Linda; Tapanya, Sombat; Li, Chun; Lau, Cindy; Liebenberg, Linda; Ungar, Michael (Wiley, 2013)This paper offers socio-ecological, situated perspectives on adolescent resilience derived from an application of interpretive visual methodologies to deepen understanding of adaptive youth development in diverse majority-world ...