Leading scholars summarize the current research on risk, protection, and resilience in the context of youth violence and its implications for practice with children and families. It describes an emerging framework for understanding social and health problems and for developing more effective programs for interventions. This book describes resilient children by examining risk factors for violence and explores the factors that lead some children to resist or adapt to risk.The concept of resilience has been applied to family, school, neighborhood, and organizational contexts. Educational, family, and community resilience are used as the framework to describe social systems that possess risk factors. By understanding why some systems with risk factors are adaptable, information for assessment can be applied to service plans, that will be more effective in treating children at risk of antisocial, aggressive behavior.

Resilience in Childhood: The Role of Risk and Protection by Jack Richman and Mark FraserPsychosocial Adversity: Risk, Resilience and Recovery by Michael RutterNeurobiological Mechanisms of Psychosocial Resiliency by J. Eric VanceMaking Sense of Senseless Youth Violence by James GarbarinoYouth Risk and Resilience: Community Approaches to Violence Prevention by Debra Prothrow-StithMultisystemic Therapy with Serious Juvenile Offenders and Their Families by Scott Henggeler and Stephanie HoytDisaster, Trauma, and Children's Resilience: A Community Response Perspective by Lawrence Rosenfeld, Mooli Lahad, and Alan CohenResilience: Implications for Evidence-based Practice by Mark Fraser and Jack RichmanIndex