M Ungar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 32913 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Ungar |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Ungar |
| ASSINATURA | UNGAR M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0431-347X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 97 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1038 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Sustaining student engagement under academic stress
What works when building a children’s therapy programme in the context of the HIV/Aids crisis? An emic perspective of resilience
Children and Families’ Experiences with Document Portability, Security and Verification During Forced Migration
This qualitative study explores the experiences of forcibly displaced families and their strategies for protecting and transporting identity, health, and education records during migration. Ninety in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with parent–child dyads who had been displaced from Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine and currently residing in Türkiye, Poland, and Canada. Findings revealed that documents not only served legal and pra…
Multisystemic resilience of Ukrainian youth following forced migration
Findings help to broaden theories related to forced migration, specifically theories that emphasize the cocreation of meaning attached to person-in-environment interactions and the resulting potential for positive development even under conditions of temporariness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Resilience among South African high school students in communities experiencing continuous traumatic stress
These findings underscore the necessity of a comprehensive, multisystemic approach in resilience research and practice, highlighting how synergistic resource combinations can foster positive outcomes despite pervasive trauma in underserved populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Exploring the integration of arts-informed methods in self-harm research
This paper demonstrates both the value of arts-informed methods in general and their specific utility when studying young people's resilience in response to self-harm
The Role of Resilience as a Mediating Factor between Adverse Childhood Experience and Mental Health in Adolescents Receiving Child Welfare Services in Nova Scotia
A structural equation model of parenting and child's resilience after the earthquake in Türkiye
This study investigated the relationship between parental psychological wellbeing, parenting, children's psychological difficulties, and prosocial behavior in Kahramanmaraş earthquake‐affected families living in Türkiye in 2023. To this end, a mediation model was proposed for parental psychological distress that was hypothesized to exert an indirect effect on a child's psychological difficulties and prosocial behavior through parenting. Participa…
Young people’s perspectives on barriers to accessing supports and services in Drayton Valley, Canada
As young people transition to adulthood, they are required to exercise more autonomy when accessing informal psychosocial support and formal health and social services. This qualitative study examines the lived experience of forty-nine young people aged thirteen to twenty-four in Drayton Valley, Canada, and their accounts of accessing support and services in response to mental and physical health needs. Drayton Valley is an economically volatile …
Un/heard, un/informed, un/involved
Children have the right to be heard in child protection proceedings. However, in social work, young people receiving protective services are often perceived as vulnerable and in need of protection, an attitude which prevents young people from participating in making important decisions that affect their lives. In this article, child participation in child welfare services (CWS) is explored through qualitative interviews with thirty-three young pe…
Resilience and trajectories of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in the context of exposure to acne
This longitudinal cohort study explored resilience in adolescents with and without acne regarding development of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation, and investigated the contribution of risk/protective factors. Participants were n = 482 13- to 17-years-olds from the Lifelines Cohort Study. Data were collected at three times (2007-2023). Two group-based trajectory models were fitted. Factors across social and built environments (family func…
A commentary on Ehrlich et al. (2023)
Paradoxically, resilience carries with it the risk of disorder. When understood systemically, this should come as no surprise. All complex systems demonstrate this same propensity for both positive and negative feedback loops. A thriving ecosystem eventually succumbs to its own dominance over its environment, using up available resources until its survival is threatened and its population declines (e.g. predators like coyotes in a national park w…
Access Without Borders
Resilience to Depression Among Emerging Adults in South Africa
Emerging adults facing chronic socioeconomic stress, especially depression, lack comprehensive research on resilience factors. This study analyzed digital diary entries ( n = 338) from 57 individuals aged 18–24 in a South African township from July 2021 to April 2022. Participants highlighted relational, community, and cultural supports regardless of risk levels. Both high and low-risk groups faced challenges like financial instability, limited e…
Youth Receiving Child Welfare Services and their Preferred Relationships With Their Service Providers
Purpose: This study explores the experiences of youth receiving Child Welfare Services (CWS) in Nova Scotia, Canada and their preferred relationships with different service providers and how these relationships may promote or hinder their resilience at different levels of risk exposure. Method: Qualitative interviews with 23 youth (aged 14–19) were analyzed using grounded theory. Results: The analysis revealed two core categories, relationship bu…
South African emerging adults' capacity for resilience in the face of Covid-19 stressors
Little is known about resilience responses to COVID-19 stressors from emerging adults in minority world contexts. In this cross-sectional study, we explored the association between self-reported COVID-19 stressors and capacity for resilience in 351 emerging adults (Meanage = 24.45, SD = 2.57; 68% female) who self-identified as Black African. We were interested in whether age, gender and neighbourhood quality influenced this association. The main …
The association between family adversity and youth mental health outcomes
BACKGROUND: The association between family adversity and young people's mental health outcomes in communities that experience economic instability has not been well explored in the South African context. Furthermore, the overtime interaction between resilience factors, family adversity, and young people's psychological functioning in African settings, like South Africa, is under-investigated. PURPOSE: This study investigates the relationship betw…
The Mediating Role of Resilience and Living in Care on Psychosocial Outcomes
Purpose This study examined the mediating role of resilience and living in care experiences between risk exposure (victimization by community and adverse childhood experiences) and psychosocial outcomes (housing instability, delinquency, and post-traumatic stress reactions) for youth receiving child welfare and community services. Method Two hundred and fifty-one youths (14–19 years old) who are receiving interventions from the Department of Comm…
Risk, Resilience, and Chinese Youth’s Psychosocial Adjustment
Few empirical studies have examined the impact of the universal social services provided to ordinary youth on their resilience and psychosocial adjustment, especially youth from developing countries like China. Based on a sample of 857 high school students between the ages of 13–19 from Beijing, this article examines the pattern of social services provided to Chinese youth and the impact of these services on their resilience and positive or negat…
Shifting Professional Identity Among Indonesian Medical Practitioners During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on medical practitioners' professional identities due to its novelty and intensity. Using constructivist grounded theory, we investigated how the COVID-19 pandemic shifted individuals' identities as medical practitioners in Indonesia, where the pandemic caused high death rates among healthcare workers, particularly medical practitioners. By interviewing 24 medical practitioners and analyzing rele…
Multisystemic Resources Matter for Resilience to Depression
This article interrogates the continuing emphasis on personal sources of resilience; it also amends the inattention to the protective factors and processes (PFPs) that support the mental health resilience of African emerging adults. To that end, we report a study that explored which PFPs distinguished risk-exposed South African 18- to 29-year-olds with negligible depression symptoms from those who reported moderate to severe symptoms. Using an ar…
Differential Adaptation to Adversity
Using person-centered latent profile analyses, this article reports two distinct sub-groups—nominal versus robust cultural allegiance—that characterize how a sample of 14- to 24-year-olds from stressed environments in South Africa ( n = 576, n females = 314, n males = 257) and Canada ( n =V481; n females = 270, n males = 211) engage with four cultural resources (spirituality, religiosity, family tradition, and community tradition). It considers h…
Understanding the Mechanisms through Which Family Risk Affects Adolescent Mental Health
There is substantial evidence that exposure to family adversity significantly and negatively impacts positive adolescent development by placing adolescents at increased risk of experiencing developmental difficulties, including conduct problems. Although the mechanisms responsible for these effects are still largely unknown, a novel line of inquiry in the resilience field conceptualizes positive adaptation, following exposure to atypical adversit…
A Cross-Country Network Analysis of Resilience Systems in Young Adults
Multisystemic resilience has been conceptualised as involving a constellation of protective factors which operate at different levels to promote adaptation and thriving despite experiences of adversity. We used network modelling to discover how protective factors at two different systemic levels (intrapersonal strengths and social-ecological resources) interrelate, drawing on survey data from 5283 emerging adults ( M = 24.53 years; 52% female) in…
Respiratory health among adolescents living in the Highveld Air Pollution Priority Area in South Africa
Adolescents living in air polluted areas experience adverse health impacts Future research should interrogate long-term exposure and health outcomes among adolescents living in the air polluted environment
Resilience across Cultures
Findings from a 14 site mixed methods study of over 1500 youth globally support four propositions that underlie a more culturally and contextually embedded understanding of resilience: 1) there are global, as well as culturally and contextually specific aspects to young people's lives that contribute to their resilience; 2) aspects of resilience exert differing amounts of influence on a child's life depending on the specific culture and context i…
Resilience, Trauma, Context, and Culture
This article reviews the relationship between factors associated with resilience, and aspects of the individual's social ecology (environment) that promote and protect against the negative impact of exposure to traumatic events. It is shown that the Environment × Individual interactions related to resilience can be understood using three principles: (1) Resilience is not as much an individual construct as it is a quality of the environment and it…
Assessing Resilience Across Cultures Using Mixed Methods
An international team of investigators in 11 countries have worked collaboratively to develop a culturally and contextually relevant measure of youth resilience, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28). The team used a mixed methods design that facilitated understanding of both common and unique aspects of resilience across cultures. Quantitative and qualitative stages to its development ensure the CYRM-28 has good content-related validi…
A Constructionist Discourse on Resilience
An ecological approach to the study of resilience, informed by Systems Theory and emphasizing predictable relationships between risk and protective factors, circular causality, and transactional processes, is inadequate to account for the diversity of people's experiences of resilience. In contrast, a constructionist interpretation of resilience reflects a postmodern understanding of the construct that better accounts for cultural and contextual …
Systemic resilience
Despite the increasing popularity of discussions of resilience in disciplines as diverse as ecology, psychology, economics, architecture, and genetics (among many others), researchers still lack a conceptual model to explain how the resilience of one system relates to the resilience of other cooccurring systems.Models that explain resilience within a single system are more robust and better studied.Although some researchers argue that both ontolo…
Validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-28 (Cyrm-28) Among Canadian Youth
Objectives: This article presents the validation of the 28-item Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) among two Canadian samples of youth with complex needs. Method: The CYRM-28 was administered to two groups of concurrent service using youth in Atlantic Canada ( n 1 = 497; n 2 = 410) allowing for use of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: Reproducibility agreement is achieved and subscales of the measure are confirmed a…
Resilience in Context
Validated measures are needed for assessing resilience in conflict settings. An Arabic version of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) was developed and tested in Jordan. Following qualitative work, surveys were implemented with male/female, refugee/nonrefugee samples (N = 603, 11-18 years). Confirmatory factor analyses tested three-factor structures for 28- and 12-item CYRMs and measurement equivalence across groups. CYRM-12 showed meas…
A Deeper, More Social Ecological Social Work Practice
Although an ecological model of social work practice has been important to the profession since the 1970s, advances in ecological theory based on developments in deep ecology (Naess 1989) and social ecology (Bookchin 1980, 1982) inform a significantly different understanding of ecological theory on which to base an emerging practice. Earlier conceptualizations of ecology in social work, synonymous with mechanistic systems models, differ from the …
Neo-Liberalism and Responsibilisation in the Discourse of Social Service Workers
In this paper, we explore the ways in which child welfare, adolescent mental health and juvenile justice service providers engage in processes of responsibilisation. Drawing on qualitative data gathered from service files of youth receiving concurrent services from child welfare, corrections and mental health services, this article will discuss how a neo-liberal approach to service is reflected in the case notes of front line staff. Analysis reve…
Community resilience for youth and families
The Cyrm-12
Using video observation and photo elicitation interviews to understand obscured processes in the lives of youth resilience
Despite the increased effort to understand resilience processes in the lives of youth, the homogeneity of a largely westernized concept needs to be challenged in studies by incorporating meanings of resilience more relevant to youth around the globe. This requires a reconsideration of the methods used to study youth resilience. This article outlines the interactive dialogical process involved in visual elicitation methods that combine moving and …
A 'Day in the Lives' of Four Resilient Youths
Grounded in the examples of four impoverished, relocated youths (two Sesotho-speaking orphans in South Africa and two Mexican immigrants in Canada), we explore cultural factors as potential roots of resilience. We triangulate rich qualitative findings (visual, dialogical, and observational) to foreground the particular, as well as acknowledge the universal, in explicating resilience in transitional contexts. Resilience-promoting cultural practice…
Drifting Toward Mental Health
Interviews with 41 high-risk adolescents explained the link between the process of empowerment and mental health. Participants in this study demonstrated how aspects of power that enhance the construction of health-promoting identities form a base for personal and social resilience in youth. Without knowledge of postmodern theory, participants articulated the interdependence between their well-being and their capacity to influence the social disc…
How Schools Enhance the Development of Young People's Resilience
Which Counts More
The theory of differential susceptibility is helping to explain how genetic, neurological and personality factors affect individual mental and physical health and why interventions work better with certain populations. As social workers, however, our focus is more on the impact of the social determinants of health found in people's environments and the nuanced way external factors influence psychological treatment outcomes and human development o…
Children's Resilience-Related Beliefs as a Predictor of Positive Child Development in the Face of Adversities
(Micro)mobility, disability and resilience
This paper explores the daily (micro)mobilities that youth with a visual or auditory impairment use to sustain well-being. Geographical research suggests that mobility is a universal phenomenon referred to the capacity to navigate one’s way through different spaces and places. Using a qualitative cross-cultural, visual methods approach to research with vulnerable youth, including four participants with visual or auditory impairments, we demonstra…
Visual Perspectives on Majority‐World Adolescent Thriving
This paper offers socio‐ecological, situated perspectives on adolescent resilience derived from an application of interpretive visual methodologies to deepen understanding of adaptive youth development in diverse majority‐world cultural contexts ( S outh A frica, T hailand, C hina, M exican migration to C anada). The research is not “cross‐cultural”; by contrast, it situates youth engagement contextually, using local perspectives, especially pers…
Peer paradox
The contribution peer relationships make to positive adolescent development is well recognized. Accordingly, peer problem measures typically assess youth with few age‐appropriate peers as having peer problems. Yet, youth facing high levels of personal and/or social adversity may reduce their association with antisocial peers as part of coping or risk mitigation strategies. While such strategies will result in higher scores on peer problem measure…
A comparison of service use among youth involved with juvenile justice and mental health
Surviving as a Postmodern Social Worker
Social workers interested in postmodernism have been provided an abundance of theory, but little to guide them in direct practice in diverse child welfare roles. In this article, two Ps and three Rs of practice based on postmodernist principles are discussed: positioning, power, resource sharing, resistance, and reflection. Professionals working in the delivery of frontline human services are struggling to work both with and in communities to cel…
Multisystemic Resilience
Youth resilience is the product of multiple systems. Still, the biological, psychological, social, and environmental system factors that support youth resilience are incompletely understood. How these factors interact, and the situational and cultural dynamics shaping their interconnectedness, are also under-researched. In response, we report a multi-site case study that is instrumental to understanding multisystemic resilience. It draws on the i…
Refugee Children’s Resilience
A social ecological theory of resilience shows that the process of resilience not only depends on an individual child’s personal traits but also on the capacity of the child’s environment to provide the resources required for the child to use these traits to achieve psychological and physical wellbeing in contexts of adversity. The aim of this study is to investigate how refugee mothers influence their children’s developmental outcomes despite ex…
The association between discrimination and violence among Somali Canadian youth
Analyses were conducted with a sample of 18–30-year-old Somali Canadians to test the association between discrimination and violence-related beliefs and behaviours, whether this association differs by the source of the discrimination, and whether there is a different pattern of effects for men and women. Results indicate that discrimination from within one’s own community is not associated with attitudes towards violence, anti-violence behaviours…
Drifting Toward Mental Health
Interviews with 41 high-risk adolescents explained the link between the process of empowerment and mental health. Participants in this study demonstrated how aspects of power that enhance the construction of health-promoting identities form a base for personal and social resilience in youth. Without knowledge of postmodern theory, participants articulated the interdependence between their well-being and their capacity to influence the social disc…
A Deeper, More Social Ecological Social Work Practice
Although an ecological model of social work practice has been important to the profession since the 1970s, advances in ecological theory based on developments in deep ecology (Naess 1989) and social ecology (Bookchin 1980, 1982) inform a significantly different understanding of ecological theory on which to base an emerging practice. Earlier conceptualizations of ecology in social work, synonymous with mechanistic systems models, differ from the …
Qualitative Contributions to Resilience Research
The use of qualitative methods can make a substantial contribution to our understanding of the construct of resilience. In particular, qualitative research addresses two specific shortcomings noted by resilience researchers: arbitrariness in the selection of outcome variables, and the challenge accounting for the sociocultural context in which resilience occurs. Qualitative research can help to resolve these dilemmas in five ways. Qualitative met…
Deconstructing Knowledge Claims
Developments in post modern theory are challenging the foundations of social work theory, practice and pedagogy. This paper explores one of these challenges, the deconstruction of expert knowledge claims and the honoring of multiple ways of knowing. Through a class assignment, students in a third year Human Behavior in Social Environments course were introduced to the practice implications of such deconstruction. Students contrasted the knowledge…
A Reply to Geoffrey Greif
Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth
Surviving as a Postmodern Social Worker
Social workers interested in postmodernism have been provided an abundance of theory, but little to guide them in direct practice in diverse child welfare roles. In this article, two Ps and three Rs of practice based on postmodernist principles are discussed: positioning, power, resource sharing, resistance, and reflection. Professionals working in the delivery of frontline human services are struggling to work both with and in communities to cel…
A Study of Community Guides
A study of 35 nonprofessional helpers, identified as community "guides," focused on the contribution each made to helping marginalized individuals and families become a part of their communities. The lessons learned through these lay helpers can inform a postmodern social work practice that promotes the use of indigenous practice principles appropriate for work with and in culturally distinct communities. The practice wisdom of these guides demon…
A Constructionist Discourse on Resilience
An ecological approach to the study of resilience, informed by Systems Theory and emphasizing predictable relationships between risk and protective factors, circular causality, and transactional processes, is inadequate to account for the diversity of people's experiences of resilience. In contrast, a constructionist interpretation of resilience reflects a postmodern understanding of the construct that better accounts for cultural and contextual …
Handbook for Working with Children and Youth
Pathways Between Social Support, Family Well Being, Quality of Parenting, and Child Resilience
Studying Resilience Across Cultures
This paper details the challenges researchers with the International Resilience Project encountered investigating resilience across cultures and contexts. The paper recounts the experiences of the global team who came together to develop a culturally embedded methodology to study resilience in fourteen communities on five continents. The team sought to better understand the phenomenon of resilience and in that process to examine critically the ‘n…
Resilience across Cultures
Findings from a 14 site mixed methods study of over 1500 youth globally support four propositions that underlie a more culturally and contextually embedded understanding of resilience: 1) there are global, as well as culturally and contextually specific aspects to young people's lives that contribute to their resilience; 2) aspects of resilience exert differing amounts of influence on a child's life depending on the specific culture and context i…
Distinguishing Differences in Pathways to Resilience Among Canadian Youth
As part of an 11-country qualitative study of resilience among at-risk youth, 19 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadian adolescents were interviewed. In this paper, we report on the Canadian youths' culturally specific and generic strategies to cope with adversity. Findings suggest that the youths' resilience, or capacity to cope under stress, reflects different degrees of access to 7 mental health-enhancing experiences (we term these “tensions”)…
Resilience Moderates the Relationship Between Exposure to Violence and Posttraumatic Reexperiencing in Mi’kmaq Youth
Children’s Perspectives on their Economic Activity as a Pathway to Resilience
When viewed in the context of children’s physical, social, and economic ecologies, children’s work has both contextually specific benefits and consequences. This paper examines children’s experiences of their economic activity using a theory of resilience as a contextually and culturally embedded phenomenon [British Journal of Social Work, 38 (2008) 218]. Though there is evidence that child labour is a potential threat to children’s well‐being, s…
Children's labour as a risky pathways to resilience
In this paper we explore children's labor as a complex phenomenon encompassing risk factors on one hand and possible positive outcomes on the other. Based on the theory of resilience and on literature review that details children's own experiences of work, we show that children who are inserted in environments which are poor in social and physical resources may report labor as pathways to ensure their own resources to overcome adversity. Understa…
Resiliência oculta
O presente artigo visa apresentar as principais idéias e conceitos sobre resiliência, tendo como parâmetro a produção de Michael Ungar. Inicialmente será apresentada a perspectiva pós-moderna, na qual discutir-se-á sobre a construção social do conceito de resiliência e em seguida será introduzido ao leitor o conceito de "hidden resilience", aqui traduzido como resiliência oculta e relacionado a estratégias de coping não-convencionais. As pesquisa…
Using a Development-in-Context Approach to Conceptualize the Impact of Sociopolitical Restructuring on Youth Resilience in Russia
Children's Resilience-Related Beliefs as a Predictor of Positive Child Development in the Face of Adversities
Validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-28 (Cyrm-28) Among Canadian Youth
Objectives: This article presents the validation of the 28-item Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) among two Canadian samples of youth with complex needs. Method: The CYRM-28 was administered to two groups of concurrent service using youth in Atlantic Canada ( n 1 = 497; n 2 = 410) allowing for use of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: Reproducibility agreement is achieved and subscales of the measure are confirmed a…
Community resilience for youth and families
The social ecology of resilience
More than two decades after E. E. Werner and R. S. Smith (1982), N. Garmezy (1983), and M. Rutter (1987) published their research on protective mechanisms and processes that are most likely to foster resilience, ambiguity continues regarding how to define and operationalize positive development under adversity. This article argues that, because resilience occurs even when risk factors are plentiful, greater emphasis needs to be placed on the role…
Assessing Resilience Across Cultures Using Mixed Methods
An international team of investigators in 11 countries have worked collaboratively to develop a culturally and contextually relevant measure of youth resilience, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28). The team used a mixed methods design that facilitated understanding of both common and unique aspects of resilience across cultures. Quantitative and qualitative stages to its development ensure the CYRM-28 has good content-related validi…
A 'Day in the Lives' of Four Resilient Youths
Grounded in the examples of four impoverished, relocated youths (two Sesotho-speaking orphans in South Africa and two Mexican immigrants in Canada), we explore cultural factors as potential roots of resilience. We triangulate rich qualitative findings (visual, dialogical, and observational) to foreground the particular, as well as acknowledge the universal, in explicating resilience in transitional contexts. Resilience-promoting cultural practice…
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