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Ungar, Michael

First Name: 
Michael
Last Name: 
Ungar
Title: 
Research Professor
Department/Faculty: 
School of Social Work
Organization: 
Dalhousie University
Address: 

6414 Coburg Road
Halifax, NS
B3H 2A7

Telephone: 
902-494-3445
Fax: 
902-494-6709
Email: 
michael.ungar@dal.ca
Website: 
http://www.michaelungar.com
Keywords:
  • Nova Scotia
  • family therapy
  • international
  • resilience
Publications:
  • A Constructionist Discourse on Resilience: Multiple Contexts, Multiple Realities among At-Risk Children and Youth
  • Constructing Narratives of Resilience With High-Risk Youth
  • Contextual and Cultural Aspects of Resilience in Child Welfare Settings
  • Deep Ecology and the Roots of Resilience: The Importance of Setting in Outdoor Experience-based Programming for At-risk Children. Critical Social Work
  • Distinguishing Differences in Pathways to Resilience Among Canadian Youth
  • Drifting Towards Mental Health: High-Risk Adolescents and the Process of Empowerment
  • Narrative inspired youth care work within a community agency
  • Nurturing hidden resilience in at-risk youth across cultures
  • Pathways Between Social Support, Family Well Being, Quality of Parenting, and Child Resilience: What We Know
  • Pathways to Resilience Among Children in Child Welfare, Corrections, Mental Health and Educational Settings: Navigation and Negotiation
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