Community Resilience: Models, Metaphors and Measures
Community Resilience: Models, Metaphors and Measures
复制标题
社区复原力:模型、隐喻和措施
DOI:
--
复制
发表时间:
2009
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Laurence J. Kirmayer
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Laurence J. Kirmayer
In this paper, we discuss the importance of community resilience for Aboriginal health and well-being. The concept of resilience has been used in developmental psychology and psychiatry to describe individuals’ capacities to achieve well-being and thrive despite significant adversity. Resilience is also a useful concept in ecology where it draws attention to the ability of ecosystems to adapt to environmental stress through transformation. The study of community resilience builds on these concepts, to understand positive responses to adversity at the level of families, communities and larger social systems. Despite historical and ongoing conditions of adversity and hardship many Aboriginal cultures and communities have survived and done well. In this review, we critically assess the various definitions of resilience as applied to individuals. We then examine resilience as applied to families, communities and larger social systems. We examine links between the concept of resilience and social capital. We then consider interventions that can promote resilience and well-being in Aboriginal communities. These include strengthening social capital, networks and support; revitalization of language, enhancing cultural identity and spirituality; supporting families and parents to insure healthy child development; enhancing local control and collective efficacy; building infrastructure (material, human and informational); increasing economic opportunity and diversification; and respecting human diversity. We also discuss methods of measuring community resilience, examining advantages and disadvantages to each method. Community resilience is a concept that resonates with Aboriginal perspectives because it focuses on collective strengths from an ecological or systemic perspective.
DOI:
10.5820/aian.1303.2006.23
发表时间:
2006
期刊:
American Indian and Alaska native mental health research (Online)
影响因子:
--
作者:
Silmere,Hiie;Stiffman,ArleneRubin
通讯作者:
Stiffman,ArleneRubin
影响因子:
7.6
作者:
Bonanno, GA;Moskowitz, JT;Folkman, S
通讯作者:
Folkman, S
DOI:
10.15288/jsa.2004.65.409
发表时间:
2004
期刊:
Journal of studies on alcohol
影响因子:
--
作者:
LesWhitbeck,B;Chen,Xiaojin;Hoyt,DanR;Adams,GaryW
通讯作者:
Adams,GaryW