Social Ecologies and Their Contribution to Resilience

Ungar, Michael

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“…This perspective has been also stressed by ecological systems models applied in the context of resilience studies on children (Betancourt & Khan, 2008; Reed, Fazel, Jones, Panter-Brick, & Stein, 2011; Ungar, 2012) and in studying now-elderly people who were traumatized as children (Maercker, Hilpert, & Burri, 2016). …”

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Posttraumatic stress symptoms among Polish World War II survivors: the role of social acknowledgement

Lis-Turlejska

Szumiał²,

Drapała³

2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: There is growing evidence of the important role played by socio-interpersonal variables on the maintenance of PTSD. Many World War II survivors in Poland could, as a result of political circumstances during the aftermath of the war, have experienced a lack of social recognition of their war-related trauma. Objective: The main aim of the study was to examine the association between perceived social reactions and the level of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSD) and depression. Method: Participants (N = 120) were aged 71–97 years (M = 82.44; SD = 6.14). They completed a WWII trauma-related questionnaire, the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS), the Impact of Events Scale (IES) and Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI). The Social Acknowledgement Questionnaire (SAQ) was used to measure participants’ perception of others’ acknowledgement and disapproval of their war trauma. Results: The rate of probable PTSD, diagnosed according to DSM-IV, was 38.3%. PTSD symptoms and General Disapproval were significantly correlated for all three PTSD symptom groups (Pearson’s r ranged from .25 to .41). The structural equation modelling results also demonstrated the importance of General Disapproval with regard to the level of PTSD symptoms. It explained both the intensity of PTSD symptoms (13.4% of variance) and the level of depression (12.0% of variance). Conclusion: In addition to confirming the high rate of PTSD among WWII survivors in Poland, the results indicate the importance of social reactions to survivors’ traumatic experiences.

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Posttraumatic stress symptoms among Polish World War II survivors: the role of social acknowledgement

Lis-Turlejska

Szumiał²,

Drapała³

2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Writing about child-headed households in South Africa, van Dijk and van Driel (2009;2012) question a submission in The South African Children's Act, which proposes that child-headed households, should be supported by adult mentors from the local community. Reporting on children's perspectives, they found that adult support does not necessarily contribute to children's well-being, on the contrary, children participating in their study felt they were rarely consulted about their care and living arrangements, or were taken seriously, and often felt disempowered after adult intervention (van Dijk and van Driel 2009;Van Dijk and Van Driel 2012).…”

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“…We take the position that all three principles are of value and that child care policy should adopt a social ecological perspective (Ungar 2012) and see children as located in, and actively participating with, a complex web of support structures, or rings of support, that each must work together to improve the well-being and resilience of children facing hardship. To illustrate this, a recent special issue in the African Journal of AIDS Research highlights how the wellbeing and resilience of children living in high HIV prevalence and low resource communities of subSaharan Africa, is a result of children's participation with their social environment, particularly their negotiation with household-, community-and state-level support structures and resources .…”

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Supporting ‘Young Carers’ in Kenya: From Policy Paralysis to Action

Skovdal¹,

Campbell²,

Onyango³

2013

Child Care in Practice

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African childrepn who care for sick or dying adults are receiving less than optimal support due to confusion about whether or not young caregiving constitutes a form of child labour and the tendency of the authorities to play it 'safe' and side with more abolitionist approaches to children's work, avoiding engagement with support strategies that could be seen as support of child labour. To challenge this view, and move from policy paralysis to action, we present a study from Western Kenya that explores community perceptions of children's work and caregiving as well as opportunities for support. The study draws on 17 community group conversations and 10 individual interviews, involving 283 members of a Luo community in the Bondo District of western Kenya. We provide a detailed account of how integral children's work is to household survival in the context of poverty, HIV and AIDS as well as community recommendations on how they and external service providers can work together in supporting children faced with excessive caregiving and income generation responsibilities. We use our findings to call for less restrictive regulations of children's work and to develop a plan for policy and action for young carers that identifies key actors, their roles and responsibilities, and how they might best collaborate -in a way that is sensitive both to concerns about child labour, as well as community strengths, resources and apprehensions about the stigmatisation of children targeted by agencies.

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“…This brings in a transcultural aspect to resilience when one compares the occurrence of natural calamities in Asia versus the west and is a subject worth investigating. 10 One of our studies conducted in the aftermath of the floods and mass devastation in Uttarakhand in Nothern India revealed that social support was a key determinant in resilience amongst those who lost a close family member in the tragedy. We studied resilience amongst those that had lost a close family member and found that keeping all factors the same it is the amount of social support, basic needs fulfillment and presence of psychopathology at a premorbid level that determines resilience in this group.…”

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“…The transactional nature defines resilience as a dynamic process in mans response to the changes in the environment around him as in the case of natural disasters. 10 Resilience in response to natural disasters is also enduring in nature and determined by the baseline resilience of the population in question. A number of salutogenic factors like positive mindset, family support, social ties, community support, pre-disaster lifestyle and the absence of premorbid psychopathology play a role in determining resilience as a response.…”

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Resilience among people who face natural disaster

Sousa

Shrivastava

2017

J Psychiatr Assoc Nepal

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Human beings possess the power to resist an adverse situation and this unique characteristic is one of the basic instinct to survive. Individual capacity to deal with insurmountable adversities is a matter of great astonishment. Often physical capacity fails but drive and conviction to survive in difficult situations persist and remains source of strength. In language of understanding it is referred to an internal capacity to fight. A number of people refer to this as ‘resilience’. There are about seventy definitions of the term resilience. The Oxford dictionary defines it as ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and toughness’. Considering most of the references to tern resilience it appears to be ‘human capacity to deal with adverse situations and quickly bounce back to normalcy’.

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Social Ecologies and Their Contribution to Resilience

Cited by 366 publications

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Posttraumatic stress symptoms among Polish World War II survivors: the role of social acknowledgement

Posttraumatic stress symptoms among Polish World War II survivors: the role of social acknowledgement

Supporting ‘Young Carers’ in Kenya: From Policy Paralysis to Action

Resilience among people who face natural disaster

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