"Beating the odds" versus "changing the odds": Poverty, resilience, and family policy.

By K. Seccombe. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Health

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Early childhood teachers' constructions of their resilience and thriving: A continuing investigation (2004, background): “…adopted a deliberately broad and inclusive conceptualization of resilience and thriving as multifaceted phenomena that involve ‘the capacity to rebound from adversity, misfortune, trauma, or other transitional crises’, in many cases ‘strengthened and more resourceful’ (Seccombe, 2002, p. 385).”
The Resilience and Strengths of Low‐Income Families (2004, background): “family violence, and homelessness (e.g., Orthner & Randolph, 1999; Seccombe, 2002).”
Validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-28 (CYRM-28) Among Canadian Youth (2012, background): “The CYRM-28) is a 28-item measure whose development was prompted by the need for a more inclusive understanding of resilience across cultures and contexts (Seccombe, 2002; Ungar, 2005).”
The Study of Youth Resilience Across Cultures: Lessons from a Pilot Study of Measurement Development (2008, background): “This definition has been challenged as being too focused on individual capacities (Seccombe, 2002; Ungar, 2005).”
The social ecology of resilience: addressing contextual and cultural ambiguity of a nascent construct. (2011, background): “This argument runs counter to popular culture, which still promotes the notion that individuals alone can ‘‘pull themselves up by their own bootstraps’’ and that structural disadvantage is no excuse for poor development (see Boyden & Mann, 2005; Seccombe, 2002).”
1. Putting Resilience Theory into Action: Five Principles for Intervention (2008, background): “It would take time, but with the advent of research on resilience, we came to understand that people’s physical and social ecologies were also responsible for their capacity to overcome the same adversity that predisposed them to breakdown and disorder (Seccombe, 2002; Wolkow & Ferguson, 2001).”
Resilience across Cultures (2006, background): “Seccombe (2002), for example, argues for an understanding of resilience as a quality of the environment as much as the individual: “The widely held view of resiliency as an individual disposition, family trait, or community phenomenon is insufficient . . . resiliency cannot be understood or…”
Exploring Resiliency: Academic Achievement among Disadvantaged Black Youth in South Africa (2005, background): “The negative effects of socio-economic Stressors far outweigh the challenges the latter present (Boyd-Franklin, 2003; Ramey et al., 1998; Seccombe, 2002).”
Distinguishing Differences in Pathways to Resilience Among Canadian Youth (2008, background): “We speculated that resilience was not just an individual’s capacity to cope with adversity but was also the capacity of the person’s community to provide the health resources necessary to nurture and sustain well-being, providing individuals opportunities to access health resources in culturally rel”
Families and Incarceration: An Ecological Approach (2005, background): “Many of these protective mechanisms have been well documented in the resilience literature as ecologically significant mediators of adversity (Seccombe, 2002; Walsh, 1998).”