ABSTRACT
Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Children, Their Families and Communities unpicks the theme of resilience and wellbeing through diverse contexts, circumstances, populations and life stories in order to explore its complexity globally.
Current societal events have brought forward a need for understanding how to best support and create environments with conditions that promote children’s holistic wellbeing. Violence in all its facets, poverty, political conflict and the recent pandemic are among the major realities threatening children, and this demands attention to how resilience can be supported to effectively safeguard children’s lived experiences. This book explores resilience from a range of perspectives, research projects and practical support mechanisms for young children, families, educators and communities. It starts with theoretical conceptualizations and goes on to present specific research projects and applied initiatives and how these can be used in application to praxis for young children and their families.
Being of interest to educators and human services striving to advocate for and enhance young children’s wellbeing, this book will serve as both a useful overview of the many approaches to supporting resilience in young children, while providing a sound theoretical perspective that is accessible for all.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|47 pages
Research-Based Views on Resilience
chapter 3|13 pages
Risk, Rights, Responsibilities and Resilience
part 2|62 pages
Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
chapter 4|20 pages
“The Children Are Grand!”
chapter 5|24 pages
How to Create a More Open-Listening Climate in Early Years Settings
chapter 6|16 pages
Resilience and Children With Disabilities
part 3|100 pages
Applied Practices and Initiatives With Young Children
chapter 7|17 pages
The Compassion–Resilience Connection
chapter 8|17 pages
Towards a Pedagogy of Hope
chapter 11|19 pages
Building a Circle of Caring Support for Our Children With Diverse Roots
chapter 12|16 pages
A System in ‘Fight Mode’?
part 4|9 pages
Connecting Ideas