Resilience enhancing psychosocial programmes for youth in different cultural contexts

Robert Henley
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Robert Henley: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Progress in Development Studies, 2010, vol. 10, issue 4, 295-307

Abstract: This article takes a first step towards developing a resilience assessment scale for use by development organisations offering services to youth and young adults in different cultural contexts. The purpose of a resilience assessment scale would be to assess effectiveness of services in enhancing competencies of youth in managing and adapting to adversities they experience. An in†depth conceptualisation of individual resilience and how this interacts with multi†layered social resilience is explored: Organisations provide psychosocial services to help strengthen competencies of vulnerable young people, who in turn can help enhance resilience in the family, neighbourhood and community.

Keywords: individual resilience; social resilience; youth and development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/146499340901000403

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