Toward a Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Understanding of Resilience: Privileging the Voices of Black, South African Young People

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 635-670

  Theron, Linda C ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Black; resilience processes; rural; social justice; South Africa; visual methods; youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ECOLOGY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE; MALE; NARRATIVE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICAN; SPIRITUAL CARE; VOICE;

EID: 84989879598     PISSN: 07435584     EISSN: 15526895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0743558415600072     Document Type: Article

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