Michael Ungar, Ph.D., is a Family Therapist and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University where he holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Child, Family and Community Resilience. Since 2002, Dr. Ungar has directed the Resilience Research Centre, designing multisite longitudinal research and evaluation projects in more than a dozen low, middle, and high-income countries, with much of that work focused on the resilience of marginalized children and families, and adult populations experiencing mental health challenges. Dr. Ungar has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject of resilience and is the author of 15 books for mental health professionals, researchers, and general audiences including Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success, The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook for Theory and Practice, and Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs. His blog, Nurturing Resilience, can be read on
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• Acknowledgments


• Contributors


• Introduction: Why a Volume on Multisystemic Resilience?


• Michael Ungar


• 1 Modeling Multisystemic Resilience: Connecting Biological, Psychological, Social, and Ecological Adaptation in Contexts of Adversity


• Michael Ungar


• Section 1: Human Biology and Social Environments


• 2 Bringing a Neurobiological Perspective to Resilience


• Nicole Bush and Danielle S. Roubinov


• 3 Risk and Resilience in Pregnancy and Birth


• Cecily Young and Susan Ayers


• 4 Promoting Resilience Within Public Health Approaches for Indigenous Communities


• Christopher Mushquash, Elaine Toombs, Kristy Kowatch, Jessie Lund, Lauren Dalicandro, and Kara Boles


• 5 Narrative Resilience: Neurological and Psychotherapeutic Reflections


• Boris Cyrulnik


• Section 2: Psychological Processes in Challenging Contexts


• 6 Resilience in Developmental Systems: Principles, Pathways, and Protective Processes in Research and Practice


• Ann Masten


• 7 Stressor Appraisal as an Explanation for the Influence of Extra-Individual Factors on Psychological Resilience


• Raffael Kalisch and Miriam Kampa


• 8 Resilience in the Salutogenic Model of Health


• Maurice B. Mittelmark


• 9 People, Perceptions, and Process: Multisystemic Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems


• Lilian Alessa and Andrew Kliskey


• 10 Social Ecology of Police Resilience


• Mehdi Ghazinour, and Arian Rostami


• Section 3: Education Systems, Arts, and Well-Being


• 11 Indigenous Education, Well-Being, and Resilience-A Systemic Approach


• Janya McCalman and Roxanne Bainbridge


• 12 A Transactional, Whole-School Approach to Resilience


• Carmel Cefai


• 13 Learning About Systemic Resilience From Studies of Student Resilience


• Linda Theron


• Section 4: Family and Kinship Systems


• 14 Family Resilience: A Dynamic Systemic Framework


• Froma Walsh


• 15 What Does It Take for Early Relationships to Remain Secure in the Face of Adversity? Attachment as a Unit of Resilience


• Ana Berástegui Pedro-Viejo and Carlos Pitillas Salvá


• Section 5: Community Well-Being


• 16 Resilience to Violent Extremism and Terrorism: A Multisystemic Analysis


• Michele Grossman


• 17 The Creation and Recreation of Borderlands Among Indigenous Peoples: A Kamentza's Journey of Resilience


• Pilar Hernández-Wolfe and Santos Jamioy Muchavisoy


• 18 A Socioecological Developmental Systems Approach for the Study of Human Resilience


• Ingrid Schoon


• Section 6: Recovery and Resilience in Humanitarian Settings


• 19 Systemic Resilience and Peacebuilding in Humanitarian Crises


• Catherine Panter-Brick


• 20 Toward a Multisystemic Resilience Framework for Migrant Youth


• Qiaobing Wu and Ying Ou


• 21 Psychological Resilience in Response to Adverse Experiences: An Integrative Developmental Perspective in the Context of War and Displacement


• Cassandra M. Popham, Michael Pluess, and Fiona S. McEwen


• 22 The Assessment of Multisystemic Resilience in Conflict-Affected Populations


• Alexandros Lordos and Daniel Hyslop


• Section 7: Organizational Processes


• 23 The Multisystem Approach to Resilience in the Context of Organizations


• Monique Crane


• 24 Resilience Engineering for Sociotechnical Safety Management


• Riccardo Patriarca


• 25 Transformative Social Innovation and Multisystemic Resilience: Three Case Studies


• Katharine McGowan and Francis Westley


• Section 8: Legal, Policy, and Economic Systems


• 26 Resilience of Legal Systems: Toward Adaptive Governance


• J. B. Ruhl, Barbara Cosens, and Niko Soininen


• 27 Thinking Systemically About Transitional Justice, Legal Systems, and Resilience


• Janine Natalya Clark


• 28 Understanding Societal Resilience: The Case for Engaged Scholarship


• Caroline van Dullemen, Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Joris Rijbroek, and Marieke W. Slootman


• 29 Decolonial Enactments of Human Resilience: Stories of Palestinian Families From Beyond the Wall


• Devin G. Atallah


• 30 The Economics of Multisystemic Resilience


• Gabriella Conti and Tatiana Paredes


• Section 9: Architecture and Urban Design


• 31 The Embodied Multisystemic Resilience of Architecture and Built Form


• Brian McGrath and Dongxue Lei


• 32 The Social Contexts of Resilient Architecture


• Terri Peters


• 33 Resilience in Postdisaster Reconstruction of Human Settlement: An Architectural Perspective


• Haorui Wu


• Section 10: Technology and Human Systems


• 34 Design and Engineering of Resilience for Networked Computer Systems


• David Hutchison, Mark Rouncefield, Antonios Gouglidis, and Tom Anderson


• 35 Patterns for Achieving Resilience in Engineered and Organizational Systems


• Scott Jackson, Victoria Hailey, Keith D. Willett, Timothy Ferris, and Eric A. Specking


• Section 11: Social Ecological Systems


• 36 Social and Ecological Systems Resilience and Identity


• Francois Bousquet, Tara Quinn, Clara Therville, Raphaël Mathevet, Olivier Barreteau, Bruno Bonté, and Chloé Guerbois


• 37 Adaptive Management of Ecosystem Services for Multisystemic Resilience: Iterative Feedback Between Application and Theory


• Katharine F. E. Hogan, Kirsty L. Nash, and Elena Bennett


• 38 Conceptualizing Cascading Effects of Resilience in Human-Water Systems


• Li Xu, Feng Mao, James S. Famiglietti, John W. Pomeroy, and Claudia Pahl-Wostl


• Conclusion: A Summary of Emerging Trends


• 39 Multisystemic Resilience: An Emerging Perspective From Social-Ecological Systems


• Katrina Brown


• Index

Multisystemic Resilience brings together in one volume a wide range of resilience scholars who have been wrestling with how to explain processes of recovery, adaptation, and transformation in contexts of change and adversity. Together this collection shows that considering the resilience of multiple systems at once is instrumental to understanding the processes of change and sustainability.