Seminario online. Resiliencia multisistémica
07-03-2023 16:00
Calle Universidad Comillas, Alcobendas, España
Organizado por Escuela Internacional de Doctorado. Colabora, Instituto Universitario de la Familia
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Multisystemic Approaches to Researching Resilience: Discovering Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Accounts of Thriving Under Adversity
As our understanding of the process of resilience has become more culturally and contextually nuanced, researchers have had to seek innovative ways to account for the complex, reciprocal relationships between the many systems that influence young people’s capacity to thrive. Whether challenged by individual biology, cognitions, peer and family relations, use of social media, community and school engagement, economic and political factors, or the climate emergency, an individual’s resilience is now understood to be the result of multiple interacting systems making positive development under conditions of adversity more likely to occur. This presentation briefly traces the history of a more contextualized understanding of resilience and introduces a model of multisystemic resilience. Several case studies will be used to show how a more systemic understanding of resilience can influence the design and implementation of resilience research. These include (1) the Resilient Youth in Stressed Environments (RYSE) study, a longitudinal mixed methods investigation of adolescents and emerging adults that are coping with boom-and-bust economic cycles and diversification in communities that are dependent on oil and gas industries in Canada and South Africa; and (2) studies of the impact of programming to build resilience among Syrian refugee children and youth. Building on these examples, Dr. Ungar will discuss how we can create better investigations of resilience that are able to capture both emic and etic accounts of positive developmental processes in ways that avoid the tendency to homogenize children’s experience (e.g., defining biological parents as the most important caregiver, assuming education is a necessary pathway to success, or privileging specific behavioral outcomes without sensitivity to their function in different contexts). Limitations to doing multisystemic resilience research will also be highlighted, with special attention to the need for further innovation. Finally, Dr. Ungar will explore the implications of a systemic understanding of resilience for policy and clinical practice.