scholarly journals Resilience in Developmental Systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Ann S. Masten
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Systems ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Promotive Factors ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Interacting Systems ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
Resilience Framework ◽  
Resilience Science

This chapter highlights findings from the developmental research on resilience in children and families. From a developmental systems perspective, resilience is defined as the capacity of a dynamic system to adapt successfully to challenges that threaten the function, survival, or development of the system. Principles that inform this perspective are delineated, along with implications for the meaning of resilience and its applications in practice. Many interacting systems shape the development of individuals as well as families, such that capacity for adapting successfully to adversity will depend on the interactions of multiple systems. Salient models of resilience are discussed along with key concepts in developmental resilience science, such as pathways, cascades, promotive factors, and protective factors. Common resilience factors observed across system levels are identified from studies of human resilience. A resilience framework for action is described, including five components, and new horizons in developmental multisystem resilience research are summarized.

scholarly journals Toward a Multisystemic Resilience Framework for Migrant Youth

2021 ◽  
pp. 375-394
Author(s):  
Qiaobing Wu ◽  
Ying Ou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Life Transitions ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Positive Adaptation ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Resilience Framework

This chapter proposes an integrative framework to understand the resilience of youth in the context of migration. It first refines the concept of resilience and provides a definition particularly for this population—a process toward positive adaptation and development despite the challenging environmental changes and life transitions that occur during migration. Considering that this process is influenced by various factors embedded in multiple systems, the authors propose a Multisystemic Resilience Framework for migrant youth that uses the photosynthesis of green plants as an analogy to demonstrate in a leaf-shaped figure the dynamic process of resilience shaped by three interactive systems: intrapersonal microsystem, interpersonal mesosystem, and institutional macrosystem. Migrant youths are positioned as active agents in the center who mobilize resources from and facilitate interactions across multiple systems. The chapter concludes by illustrating the complex interplay between systems in the framework and discussing potential implications for research, policy, and practice.

scholarly journals A Transactional, Whole-School Approach to Resilience

2021 ◽  
pp. 220-231
Author(s):  
Carmel Cefai
Keyword(s):  
Research Evidence ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Resilience Framework ◽  
Whole School Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Waves

In contrast to the earlier understandings of resilience for the select, invulnerable few, an ecological perspective provides the opportunity for all children to develop resilience given resilience-enhancing, protective social contexts. In this chapter, the author explores a transactional-ecological perspective of resilience in the context of educational systems, underlining the limitations of an overreliance on the individual in resilience building. The chapter presents a transactional, whole-school, resilience framework for educational systems informed by the research evidence, focusing on both curricular competence-building and contextual processes across multiple systems. The chapter concludes with an illustration of a recent resilience program, RESCUR Surfing the Waves, informed by this approach.

School Engagement and Positive Youth Development: A Relational Developmental Systems Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (13) ◽  
pp. 37-57
Author(s):  
Yibing Li ◽  
Jennifer P. Agans ◽  
Paul A. Chase ◽  
Miriam R. Arbeit ◽  
Michelle B. Weiner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Developmental Systems Theory ◽  
Developmental Systems ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Relational Developmental Systems ◽  
Five Cs

This chapter explains the links between relational developmental systems theory and the strength-based, positive youth development (PYD) perspective. The Five Cs model of PYD (involving competence, confidence, connection, character, and caring) is used to assess the role of school engagement in PYD.

What Are Networks for Social Impact?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Michelle Shumate ◽  
Katherine R. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Relationship Type ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Key Concepts

This introductory chapter describes the key concepts and approaches used throughout the rest of the book. First, it defines social impact and distinguishes it from individual, organizational, and network outcomes. Second, it defines networks as arrangements of organizations characterized by autonomy and interdependence. Further, the chapter unpacks the dimensions of networks for social impact, including organizational composition, number of organizations, relationship type, network governance, type of social impact, and longevity. Third, the chapter introduces the systems perspective and axioms used throughout the book, contrasting it with configurational and process approaches. Finally, it describes the research and case studies that are foundational to the claims of the book.

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