Families as navigators and negotiators: Facilitating culturally and contextually specific expressions of resilience

Family Process

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 421-435

  Ungar, Michael ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Navigation; Negotiation; Racism; Resilience; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; FAMILY RELATIONS; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMANS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77956512808     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01331.x     Document Type: Article

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