Resiliency

An Integrated Approach to Practice, Policy, and Research

The human condition is more than a web of pathology. We are compelled to focus not just on an individual’s difficulties but also to recognize the strengths that lie within. This is equally true of families, groups, and communities. Resiliency: An Integrated Approach to Practice, Policy, and Research, edited by Roberta Greene, helps broaden our knowledge of how some individuals overcome adverse life circumstances. The book is very timely and I encourage its use for human behavior courses.

Wilma J. Peebles-Wilkins, Phd, ACSW

Dean, Boston University School of Social Work

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Roberta Greene and her contributors have done a masterful job of providing a conceptual base for the paradigm shift occurring in practice that promotes healthy functioning and use of the boundless inner spirit, strengths, and resources of clients. This exhaustive volume also shows the applicability of resilience-based practice in diverse settings, across social work methods, and even provides specific intervention strategies at each of these levels. Interviews with individuals who have achieved in the face of overwhelming circumstances add a warm, humane, and personal touch to this scholarly work.

Gladys Walton Hall, PhD

Professor & Chairman of Direct Services, Howard University School of Social Work

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Resiliency offers a refreshing new approach to theory and practice—one that converges with current political challenges. The book thoroughly demonstrates how this application can be achieved and includes chapters that pertain to micro and macro practice, research, oppression, and social policy. The contributors clearly articulate resiliency threory’s relevancy across the broad spectrum of the profession and in a way that the reader will find captivating.

Coleen M. Galambos, DSW, ACSW, LCSW-C

Acting Associate Dean & Associate Professor, University of Tennessee College of Social Work