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The Negotiating Resilience Project’s Publications and Presentations and Methodologically Related Publications of the Team

Peer-reviewed papers (alphabetized):

Cameron, C.A, Lau, C., & Tapanya, S. (2009). Passing it on during a Day In The Life of resilient adolescents in diverse communities around the globe. Child and Youth Care Forum, 38(5), 227-271.

Cameron, E.L, Fox, J.D., Anderson, M.S., & Cameron, C.A. (in press). Resilient youths use humor to enhance socio-emotional functioning during a Day in the Life. Journal of Adolescent Research.

Didkowsky, N., Ungar, M., & Liebenberg, L. (2010). Using visual methods to capture embedded processes of resilience for youth across cultures and contexts. Journal of Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 19(1), 12–18.

Ungar, M. (in press). What is resilience across cultures and contexts? Advances to the theory of positive development among individuals and families under stress. Journal of Family Psychotherapy.
 

Peer-reviewed paper presentations (alphabetized):

Brooks, C. (March 2010). Urban Aboriginal youth's visions of resilience and social capital. Paper in symposium, Adolescents' Negotiating Resilience during one 'Day in their Lives' at Annual Meeting of Society for Research on Adolescents. Philadelphia, PA.

Brooks, C. (June 2009). Resilience through Our Eyes: Urban Aboriginal youth negotiate self-identity, Paper in symposium, Protective factors during a “Day in the Life” of resilient, relocated, adolescents in eight communities around the globe at Jean Piaget Society Annual Meetings, Park City, Utah.

Brooks, C., Theron, L., Samuelson, L., & Mabitsela, M. (June 2010). Vulnerability, risk and resilience: Bringing youth voices into view. Paper to be presented at the Pathways to Resilience Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 7-11, 2010.

Cameron, C.A. (June, 2008). Ecological studies of a Day in the Life of resilient adolescents in eight locations around the globe. Invited research presentation at meeting of the Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC.

Cameron, C.A. (June 2009). ‘A Day in the life’: Adapting visual methodologies to investigate daily lives of youths in diverse global locations. Paper in symposium, Protective factors during a “Day in the Life” of resilient, relocated, adolescents in eight communities around the globe at Jean Piaget Society Annual Meetings, Park City, Utah.

Cameron, C.A., Lau, C., Tapanya, S., Didkowsky, N., Liedenberg, L., Ungar, M., & Theron, L. (February 2009). “Day in the life” of resilient adolescents in diverse communities around the globe. Paper presented at Human Early Learning Partnership-University of Victoria: Reach International Research Day, Victoria, BC.

Cameron, C.A., Theron, L., & Tapanya, S. (June 2010). Cartooning our paths to resilience. Facilitated discussion to be presented at the Pathways to Resilience Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 7-11, 2010.

Cameron, E.L., Didkowsky, N. & Cameron, C.A. (May 2009). Humor enhances socio-emotional functioning in resilient adolescents in diverse contexts at Fifth International congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign IL.

Cameron, E.L. & Cameron, C.A. (June 2009). “I’d rather have a dog!”: Negotiating a resilient “day” with humour. Paper in Symposium, Protective factors during a “Day in the Life” of resilient, relocated, adolescents in eight communities around the globe at Jean Piaget Society Annual Meetings, Park City, Utah.

Cameron, E.L. & Cameron, C.A. (March 2010). Adolescents negotiating resilience during one day in their lives: A little bit of honey makes the pill to go down. Paper in symposium, Adolescents' Negotiating Resilience during one 'Day in their Lives' at Annual Meeting of Society for Research on Adolescents. Philadelphia, PA.

Cameron, E.L. & Cameron, C.A. (July 2010). Toward a developmental model of humour. Paper to be presented in symposium, Days in their Lives: Global perspectives on growing up well, at biennial meeting of International Society for Studies in Behavioural Development, Lusaka, Zambia.

Cameron, E.L., Didkowsky, N. & Cameron, C.A. (May 2009). Humor enhances socio-emotional functioning in resilient adolescents in diverse contexts at Fifth International congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign IL.

Chen, J., Lau, C., & Tapanya, S. (March 2010). Identities as Protective Processes: Sociocultural Perspectives on Youth Resilience. Paper in symposium, Adolescents' Negotiating Resilience during one 'Day in their Lives' at Annual Meeting of Society for Research on Adolescents. Philadelphia, PA.

Didkowsky, N. (June 2009). The impacts of using visual methodologies to engage youth in the research process. Discussion in symposium, Protective factors during a “Day in the Life” of resilient, relocated, adolescents in eight communities around the globe at Jean Piaget Society Annual Meetings, Park City, Utah.

Didkowsky, N. (March 2010). The relationship between youth contribution to community-wellbeing and resilience for young people in transition between cultures and contexts, Paper in symposium, ‘Adolescents' Negotiating Resilience during one 'Day in their Lives' at Annual Meeting of Society for Research on Adolescents. Philadelphia, PA.

Didkowsky, N., Liebenberg, L., & Ungar, M. (June 2009). The process of video-based methods: Reflections from the field. Paper presented at the 5th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champagne-Urbana, USA.

Lau, C. & Cameron, C.A. (May 2009). Cross cultural and socio-cultural methodologies for examining the social development of children and youth. Paper at Human Early Learning Partnership Research Days. University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC.

Lau, C., & Tapanya, S. (June 2009). Teens’ perspectives on risk and resilience. Paper in symposium, Protective factors during a “Day in the Life” of resilient, relocated, adolescents in eight communities around the globe’ at Jean Piaget Society Annual Meetings, Park City, Utah, IL.

Lau, C., Li, C., Tapanya, S. (July 2010). Resilient youths’ academic aspirations: Implications for resources and support. Paper to be presented in symposium, Days in their Lives: Global perspectives on growing up well at biennial meeting of International Society for Studies in Behavioural Development, Lusaka, Zambia.

Li, C. & Zhang, W. (June 2009). The family context, future orientation and youth resiliency. Paper in symposium, Protective factors during a “Day in the Life” of resilient, relocated, adolescents in eight communities around the globe at Jean Piaget Society Annual Meetings, Park City, Utah.

Liebenberg, L., Didkowsky, N., & Ungar, M. (June 2010). Using visual methods to capture embedded processes of resilience for youth across cultures and contexts. Facilitated discussion to be presented at the Pathways to Resilience Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 7-11, 2010.

Palamattam Anthony, S., Li, C., Lau, C., Zhang, W., & Thomas, J. (June 2010). Resilient youths’ academic aspirations: Implications for resources and support. Paper to be presented at the Pathways to Resilience Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 7-11, 2010.

Tapanya, S., Lau, C., & Cameron, C.A. (July, 2008). 'Day in the life' of resilient adolescents in eight diverse communities around the globe. Paper presented in Invited Symposium, M. Ungar, Chair, Pathways to resilience across cultures: Lessons from studies of positive development under adverse circumstances at International Congress of Psychology, Berlin Germany.

Theron, L., & Cameron, C. A. (June 2010). Adapting methodologies for partnering in youth resilience. Paper to be presented at the Pathways to Resilience Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 7-11, 2010.

Theron, L. & Cameron, C.A. (July 2010). Adaptations of the DITL methodology: From strong toddlers to resilient teenagers. Paper to be presented in symposium, Resilient Youths’ Academic Aspirations: Implications for Resources and Support at biennial meeting of International Society for Studies in Behavioural Development, Lusaka, Zambia.

Theron, L, Cameron, C.A., Lau, C., Didkowsky, N., Mabitsela, M. (August 2009). A day in the lives of four resilient youth: An investigation of the cultural roots of resilience. Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of South Africa. Capetown SA.

Ungar, M. (June, 2009). Community responses to families: Nurturing resilience. Presentation at the Community Interventions with Families Interest Group, American Family Therapy Academy Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ungar, M. (January, 2010). The social ecology of resilience in educational settings. Keynote address at the annual conference of the Education Association of South Africa. North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa.

Ungar, M. (June, 2010). Strengthening young people's resilience. Keynote address to be presented at the American Family Therapy Academy Annual Meeting, Boulder, Colorado.
 

Reports/ Manuals

The Negotiating Resilience Project Research Report.

The Negotiating Resilience Project Research Manual and Workbook.

The Negotiating Resilience Project Data Analysis Manual and Workbook.
 

Methodologically Related Research Publications

Accorti Gamannossi, B. (2006). The study of development in different cultural contexts: the arrangement of research materials. Lo studio dello sviluppo in contesti culturali diversi: la predisposizione dei materiali di ricerca, Rassegna di Psicologia, XXIII (3), 93-107.

Cameron, C.A. (2009). Constructing syntheses: Converging methods for investigating youth in diverse cultures. In L Liebenberg & M. Ungar, (Eds.). Researching resilience. Pp.225-244. Toronto ON: University of Toronto Press.

Cameron, C.A., & Pinto, G. (2009). Day in the Life: Secure interludes with joint book reading. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 3(4), 437-449.

Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S. & Gillen, J. (2006). Swings, hammocks, and rocking chairs as secure bases during A Day in the Life in diverse cultures. Child and Youth Care Forum, 35(3), 231-247.

Cameron, C.A., & Tapanya, S. (2006). Swings and hammocks as secure bases for resilience during ‘A Day In The Life’ in diverse cultures. [Altalene ed amache come basi sicure per la capacità di recupero durante un „Giorno nella vita” in diverse culture.] Rassegna di Psicologia, XXIII (3), 25-50.

Cameron, C.A., Ungar, M., & Liebenberg, L. (2007). Cross-cultural understandings of resilience: Roots for wings in the development of affective resources for resilience. In N. Carrey & M. Ungar (Eds.), Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, 16 (2), 285-301.

Cameron, E.L., Kennedy, K., & Cameron, C.A. (2008). “Let me show you a trick!”: A toddler’s use of humor to explore, interpret, and negotiate her familial environment during a Day in the Life. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 23, 5-18.

Carrey, N., & Ungar, M. (2007). Resilience and its application to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Monograph for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, 16 (2).

Gillen, J. & Cameron, C.A. (Eds.). (2010). International perspectives on early childhood research: A Day in the Life. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gillen, J, Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S., Pinto, G., Hancock, R., Young, S., & Accorti Gamannossi, B. (2006). ‘A Day in the Life’: Advancing a methodology for the cultural study of development and learning in early childhood. Early Childhood Development and Care, 1-12.

Gillen, J., Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S., Pinto, G., Hancock, R., Young, S., Accorti Gamannossi, B. & Didkowsky, N. (2006). A Day In The Life: advancing a methodology for the cultural study of development and learning in early childhood. [Una metodologia per lo studio culturale dello sviluppo e dell‚apprendimento nella prima infanzia.] Rassegna di Psicologia, XXIII (3), 11-24.

Gillen, J., & Hancock, R. (2006) 'A day in the life': exploring eating events involving two-year-old girls and their families in diverse communities. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 31(4), 23-29.

Gillen, J., & Hancock, R. (2006). Eating, artefacts and the communication of values. [I pasti, gli artefatti e la trasmissione dei valori.] Rassegna di Psicologia, XXIII (3), 41-59.

Hancock, R., & Gillen, J. (2007). Safe places in domestic spaces: two-year-olds at play in their homes. Children's Geographies, 5(4), 337-351.

Liebenberg, L. (2009). The visual image as discussion point: Increasing validity in boundary crossing research. Qualitative Research, 9(4), 441-467.

Normandeau, S. (2006). From daily activities in diverse cultures to a day in the life of five girls in their respective cultures. [Dalle attività quotidiane in diverse culture a un giorno nella vita di cinque bambine nelle rispettive culture.] Rassegna di Psicologia, XXIII (3), 109-113.

Pinto, G. (Ed.) (2006). Special Issue "A Day In The Life": ecological investigation of learning in diverse communities / Numero Speciale "A Day In The Life": un'indagine ecologica sul costruirsi degli apprendimenti in comunità diverse. Rassegna di Psicologia, XXIII (3).

Pinto, G. (2006). Editoriale. "A Day in the Life" un 'indangi ecologica sul construirsi deglie apprendimenti in comunita diverse / “A Day in the Life": ecological investigation of learning in diverse communities. Rassegna di Psicologia, XXIII(3), 5-10.

Pinto, G., Accorti Gamannossi, B., & Cameron, C.A. (2006). Emergent literacy in a day in the life. [Alfabetizzazione emergente in „Un giorno nella vita’.] Rassegna di Psicologia, XXIII (3), 79-92.

Pinto, G., Accorti Gamannossi, B., & Cameron, C.A. (2006). Joint book reading: Socialization of literacy in cultural perspective. International Journal of Ideographic Science. 4. Retrieved from http://www.valsiner.com/articles/pinto.html
Reprinted as:
Pinto, G., Accorti Gamannossi, B., & Cameron, C.A. (2008). Joint book reading: Socialization of literacy in cultural perspective. In S. Salvatore, J. Valsiner, S. Strout-Yagodzynski, & J. Clegg (Eds.) Yearbook of Idiographic Science, Volume 1. Roma: Firera & Liuzzo Group, pp. 287-306.

Pinto, G., Accorti Gamannossi, B., & Cameron, C.A. (2009). From scribbles to meanings: Social interaction in different cultures and the emergence of young children’s early drawing. Early Child Development and Care, 179 (8), 1-19.

Ungar, M. & Teram, E. (2005). Qualitative resilience research: Contributions and risks. In M. Ungar (ed.), Handbook for working with children and youth: Pathways to Resilience across cultures and contexts (pp.149-164). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Ungar, M., Brown, M., Liebenberg, L., Othman, R., Kwong, W.M., Armstrong, M., & Gilgun, J. (2007). Unique pathways to resilience across cultures. Adolescence, 42(166), 287-310.

Ungar, M. (2008). Resilience across cultures. British Journal of Social Work, 38(2), 218-235.

Young, S., & Gillen, J. (2007). Communicative musicality as parenting practice. La musicalità comunicativa come pratica educative, 61-77.
 

Links to Grounded Theory Resources

Charmaz, K. 1990. ‘Discovering’ chronic illness: Using grounded theory. Social Science in Medicine, 30, 1161-1172.

Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. 1990. Introduction. In Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (Eds.) Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. (pp. 1-18). Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications.

Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. 1990. Techniques for enhancing theoretical sensitivity. In Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (Eds.) Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. (pp. 75-95). Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications.

Links to Thematic Analysis Resources

Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3, 77-101.

Cameron, E. L., Kennedy, K. M., & Cameron, C. A. (2008). “Let me show you a trick!”: A toddler’s use of humour to explore, interpret, and negotiate her familialenvironment during a Day in the Life. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 23(1), 5-18.

Links to Discourse Analysis Resources

Alldred, P. & Burman, E. (2005). Analyzing children’s accounts using discourse analysis.(pp. 175-198). In Greene, S. & Hogan, D. (Eds.). Researching children's experience: Approaches and methods. London: Sage.

 

Gill, R. (2000). Discourse analysis. (pp. 172–90). In M. W. Bauer & G. Gaskell (Eds.). Qualitative researching with text, image and sound. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Links to Narrative Analysis Resources

Bamberg, M. (2004a) Narrative discourse and identities. In J. C. Meister, T. Kindt, W. Schernus, & M. Stein (Eds.), Narratology beyond literary criticism (pp. 213-237). Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Engel, S. (2005). Narrative analysis of children’s experience. In Greene, S. & Hogan, D. (Eds.). Researching Children's Experience: Approaches and Methods (pp.199-216). London: Sage

Riessman, C. K. (2001). Analysis of personal narratives. In J.F. Gubrium & J.A. Holstein (Eds.), Handbook of Interviewing (pp. 331-346). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
 

Latest News

New Partner in Brazil


Dr. Renata Liborio from Sao Paulo State University in Brazil has secured funding to continue the Negotiating Resilience Project in Brazil with 20 working children. Funding from FAPESP and UNESP has been made available for two years of research, April 2009 - March 2011.





First Phase Completed

Thanks to our dedicated team of site investigators and research assistants, we have successfully completed the first phases of the research with youth at each site. The visual data we have collected highlight the many strengths, resources and supports the youth participants use to navigate their way through the challenges they face. Currently, the researchers at each site are returning to the youth to have them reflect on their video and photograph data to ensure we understand youths’ interpretations of their own images.

The team has also been active in presenting our work at conferences around the world.




Did you know that we now have four research programs running in more than a dozen countries worldwide? Visit our project pages to find out more.

Looking for books from the presenters at our June 2010 conference? The event bookseller still has copies and can ship them to you. Please see their website for details: www.kingsbookstore.ca


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RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS
The RRC is committed to assisting the professional development of students and graduates interested in youth resilience and researching youth. Onsite internships are designed to provide participants with challenging work experience under the guidance and supervision of researchers with extensive knowledge of youth resilience and mixed research methods. Internships normally result in publications (see the various projects and publications on our website for more details).

While we are unable to fund internships, we are happy to provide mentoring to individuals who are able to secure their own funding to join the RRC team at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

If you are interested in applying, please submit a cover letter specifying your area of interest and anticipated goals, as well as the length of the internship you are seeking. A 3-5 page sample of your writing is also requested. Please contact us at:

RESILIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
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6414 COBURG ROAD
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Applications can also be emailed to rrc@dal.ca


 

Conference Announcement:

Resilience - Why bother? Share, swap and debate resilience research and practice knowledge

University of Brighton, England, 6-7 April 2011

This exciting conference promises to be a creative mix of different individuals and groups, coming together to examine what resilience research is telling us AND consider ways of working in light of these findings. Just how does resilience help us to foster healthy responses in times of trouble?
The programme will include keynotes from leading international academics, parents, young people and practitioners. Expect workshops, panel debate, posters and networking.

To see the Call for contributions and further details, click here.


 


Last Updated: Jun 28, 2010