Community Resilience: Models, Metaphors and Measures
TL;DR: 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 as mentioned in this paper, which is also a useful concept in ecology where it draws attention to the ability of ecosystems to adapt to environmental stress through transformation.
read more
Abstract: 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.
read more
Chat with Paper
AI Agents for this Paper
Find similar papers on Google Scholar, PubMed and Arxiv
Write a critical review of this paper
Analyze citations of this paper to find unaddressed research gaps
Citations
Exploring the Term “Resilience” in Arctic Health and Well-Being Using a Sharing Circle as a Community-Centered Approach: Insights from a Conference Workshop
Gwen Healey Akearok,Katie Cueva,Jon Petter Anders Stoor,Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen,Elizabeth Rink,Nicole Kanayurak,Anastasia Emelyanova,Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka +7 more
TL;DR: A Sharing Circle was facilitated at the International Congress on Circumpolar Health in 2018 as discussed by the authors to explore conceptions of resilience in Arctic communities, with participants engaging from seven of the eight Arctic countries, participants shared critiques of the term "resilience" and their perspectives on key components of thriving communities.
Surviving, healing and moving forward: Journeys towards resilience among Canadian Cree adults.
TL;DR: Mental health providers should consider and incorporate these mechanisms of resilience following maltreatment into treatment for Cree people, when appropriate, to aid recovery.
24
Individual- and community-level determinants of Inuit youth mental wellness
TL;DR: These findings support Inuit perspectives, expand the scope of epidemiological analysis of Inuit mental wellness and reinforce the need for locally informed, community-wide approaches to mental wellness promotion for Inuit youth.
First Nations youth redefine resilience: listening to artistic productions of ‘Thug Life’ and hip-hop
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used arts-based and mixed-methods to identify community strengths and barriers surrounding youth resilience in the Battleford Agency Tribal Chiefs First Nations in Saskatchewan.
24
Learning from resilience research: findings from four projects in New Zealand
Simon Fielke,Simon Fielke,William Kaye-Blake,Alec D. Mackay,Willie Smith,J.M. Rendel,Estelle J. Dominati +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, four case studies against a resilience framework developed in the course of a research program are presented. And the authors demonstrate an approach to learn systematically from complex and multi-disciplinary research.
23
References
The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
•Book
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. Putnam
- 01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: Putnam as mentioned in this paper showed that changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's roles and other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society.
28.3K
Forms of Capital
Cf. Pierre Bourdieu
- 01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The notion of capital is a force inscribed in objective or subjective structures, but it is also a lex insita, the principle underlying the immanent regularities of the social world as mentioned in this paper, which is what makes the games of society, not least the economic game, something other than simple simple games of chance offering at every moment the possibility of a miracle.
The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.
Roy F. Baumeister,Mark R. Leary +1 more
TL;DR: Existing evidence supports the hypothesis that the need to belong is a powerful, fundamental, and extremely pervasive motivation, and people form social attachments readily under most conditions and resist the dissolution of existing bonds.
20.7K
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
TL;DR: Putnam et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, revealing patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
18.9K