Social resilience

Transformation in two Australian communities facing chronic adversity

Bibliographic Data

ID9973418
AuthorsNatalie Bolzan (0009-0000-3591-5276, Western Sydney University, corresponding author), Fran Gale (0000-0002-9483-1475, Western Sydney University)
Year2016
Volume61
Issue6
Pages843-856
Publication date2016-11-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020872816673888
OpenAlexW2549522996
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited28

Resilience has predominantly been investigated as an individual’s response to adversity and, at the level of the collective, how communities respond to a direct threat. The social work literature investigating social resilience as a response to the challenge of subtle, pervasive and divisive social threats is limited. This article presents the findings of research conducted in two Australian communities with young people who experienced marginalisation; it investigated how sustained social resilience could be evoked in response to the disadvantage they experienced. Six themes that reflect the expression of social resilience emerged from the data and provide insights for social workers practising with communities facing chronic adversity

Political science · Psychological resilience · Resilience (materials science · Social change · Social support · Social transformation · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work

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