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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
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Ungar, M. & Liebenberg, L. (in press). A Measure of Resilience with Contextual Sensitivity—The CYRM-28: Exploring the Tension Between Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Resilience Theory and Research. In Sandra Prince-Embury (Ed.), Translating Resiliency Theory for Application with Children, Youth and Adults.
Ungar, M., Liebenberg, L., Landry, N., & Ikeda, J. (in press). Caregivers, young people with complex needs, and multiple service providers: A study of triangulated relationships and their impact on resilience. Family Process.
Cameron, A., Theron, L., Tapanya, S., Li. C., Lau, C., Liebenberg, L., & Ungar, M. (in press). Visual perspectives on Majority World adolescent thriving. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Shalini, L., Suto, M., & Ungar, M. (in press). Examining the potential of combining the methods of grounded theory and narrative inquiry: A comparative analysis. The Qualitative Report.
Didkowsky, N., & Ungar, M. (in press). Using a development-in-context approach to conceptualize the impact of sociopolitical restructuring on youth resilience in Russia. Youth and Society.
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Liebenberg, L., Ungar, M., & Van de Vijver, F. (2012). Validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-28 (CYRM-28) among Canadian youth. Research of Social Work Practice, 22(2), 219-226.
Liebenberg, L., Didkowsky, N. & Ungar, M. (2012). Analysing visual data using grounded theory: An exemplar of the Negotiating Resilience Project. Visual Studies, 1(27), 59-74.
Sanders, J., Munford, R., and Liebenberg, L. (2012). Young People, Their Families and Social Supports: Understanding Resilience with Complexity Theory. In, M. Ungar (Ed.), The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice (pp.233-243). New York, NY: Springer.
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Cameron, A., Theron, L., Ungar, M., & Liebenberg, L. (2011). Adapting visual methodologies to identify youth protective processes in negotiating resilience across cultures and contexts. Australian Community Psychologist, 23(2), 68–84.
Liebenberg, L. and Ungar, M. (2011). Ethical concerns regarding participation of marginalized youth in research. Bulletin of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, 1(59), 24-27.
Montoya, N., Restrepo, A., Duque, L. F., & Ungar, M. (2011). Predicting resilient adolescents and youths: Validation of a screening test in Colombia. Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 34, 1–22
Theron, L., Cameron, A., Lau, C., Didkowsky, N., Ungar, M., & Liebenberg, L. (2011). A ‘day in the lives’ of four resilient youths: Cultural roots of resilience. Youth and Society. doi: 10.1177/0044118X11402853
Ungar, M. (2011). Comme vincere un sistema iperprotettivo [How to stop overprotective parenting]. Special Issue: Parent protection and emancipation. Famiglia Oggi, 2(Mar-Apr), 8-15.
Ungar, M. (2011). Community resilience for youth and families: Facilitative physical and social capital in contexts of adversity. Children and Youth Social Services Review, 33, 1742–1748.
Ungar, M. (2011). The social ecology of resilience. Addressing contextual and cultural ambiguity of a nascent construct. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 81, 1-17.
Ungar, M. (2011). The Social Worker: A Novel: The Advantages of Fictional Re-presentations of Life Narratives. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 11(3), 290–302.
Ungar, M., Duque, L.F. & Hernandez, D.M. (2011). Focus groups and longitudinal evaluation of intervention outcomes: Results from the Medellin Early Prevention of Aggression Program. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 5(1), 40-51.
Ungar, M. & Liebenberg, L. (2011). Assessing Resilience across Cultures Using Mixed Methods: Construction of The Child and Youth Resilience Measure. Journal of Multiple Methods in Research, 5(2), 126-149.
Ungar, M., Theron, L. & Didkowsky, N. (2011). Adolescents' precocious and developmentally appropriate contributions to their families' well-being and resilience in five countries. Family Relations, 60(2), 231-246.
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2010
Didkowsky, N. Ungar, M., & Liebenberg, L. (2010). Using visual methods to capture embedded processes of resilience for youth across cultures and contexts. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,19(1), 12-18.
Lee, T.Y., Kwong, W.M., Cheung, C.K., Ungar, M. & Cheung, M.Y.L. (2010). Children's resilience-related beliefs as a predictor of positive child development in the face of adversities: Implications for interventions to enhance children's quality of life. Social Indicators Research, 93(3), 437-453.
Liborio, R. & Ungar, M. (2010). Resiliência oculta: a construção social do conceito e suas implicações para práticas profissionais junto a adolescentes em situação de risco [Hidden resilience: The social construction of the concept and implications for professional practices with at-risk adolescents]. Psicologia, Reflexão e Crítica, 23(3), 476-484.
Liborio, R. & Ungar, M. (2010). Children's labour and work as a risky pathway to resilience: Children's growth in contexts of poor resources. Psicologia Reflexao e Critica, 23(2), 232-242.
Liborio, R. & Ungar, M. (2010). Children's perspectives on their economic activity as a pathway to resilience. Children and Society, 24, 326-338.
Ungar, M. (2010). Families as navigators and negotiators: Facilitating culturally and contextually specific expressions of resilience. Family Process, 49(3), 421-435.
Ungar, M. (2010). Aspetti generali e culturali della resiliencza nei bambini e nei giovani. Revista Sperimentale di Freniatria, 84(1), 109-122.
Ungar, M. (2010). What Is Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts? Advances to the Theory of Positive Development among Individuals and Families under Stress. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 21(1), 1-16.
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2009
Liebenberg, L. (2009). The visual image as discussion point: Increasing validity in boundary crossing research. Qualitative Research, 9(4): 441-467.
Ungar, M. (2009). Overprotective parenting: Helping parents provide children the right amount of risk and responsibility. American Journal of Family Therapy, 37(3), 258-271.
Ungar, M. (2009). Resilience practice in action: Five principles for intervention. Social Work Now, 43(August), 32-38.
Ungar, M., Barter, K., McConnell, S., Tutty, L. & Fairholm, J. (2009). Patterns of disclosure among youth. Qualitative Social Work, 8(3), 341-356.
Ungar, M. & Liebenberg, L. (2009). Cross-cultural consultation leading to the development of a valid measure of youth resilience:The International Resilience Project. Studia Psychologica, 51(2/3), 259-268.
Ungar, M., Tutty, L., McConnell, S., Fairholm, J. & Barter, K. (2009). What Canadian youth tell us about disclosing abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 33(10), 699-708.
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2008
Hartman, L., Little, A. & Ungar, M. (2008). Narrative inspired youth care work within a community agency. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 27(1), 44-58.
Little, A., Hartman, L. & Ungar, M. (2008). Introducing ‘the narrative construal of reality’ and ‘the club of life’. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (1), 46-48.
Little, A., Hartman, L. & Ungar, M. (2008). Creating a narrative-based practice culture: Phoenix Youth Programs Case Study. Residential Treatment of Children and Youth, 25(4), 319-332.
Ungar, M. (2008). Resilience across cultures. British Journal of Social Work, 38(2), 218-235.
Ungar, M., Brown, M., Liebenberg, L., Cheung, M. & Levine, K. (2008). Distinguishing differences in pathways to resilience among Canadian youth. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 27(1), 1-13.
Ungar, M., Liebenberg, L., Boothroyd, R., Kwong, W.M., Lee, T.Y., Leblanc, J., Duque, L. & Makhnach, A. (2008). The study of youth resilience across cultures: Lessons from a pilot study of measurement development. Research in Human Development, 5(3), 166-180.
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2007
Cameron, C.A., Ungar, M. & Liebenberg, L. (2007). Cultural understandings of resilience: Roots for wings in the development of affective resources for resilience. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, 16(2), 285-302.
Carrey, N. & Ungar, M. (2007). Resilience theory and the diagnostic and statistical manual: Incompatible bed fellows? Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, 16(2), 497-514.
Carrey, N. & Ungar, M. (Eds) (2007). Resilience. Monograph for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 16(2).
Little, A., Hartman, L. & Ungar, M. (2007). Practical Applications of Narrative Ideas to Youth Care. Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, 20(4), 37-41.
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. & Costanzo, L. (2007). Outsider and insider supervision: Addressing the barriers to MFT supervision. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 26(2), 68-83.
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2006
Liebenberg, L. (2006). The “us” and “them” in research: Can we get around it? Qualitative research in organizations and management, 1(2): 138-140.
Ungar, M. (2006). “Too ambitious”: What happens when funders misunderstand the strengths of qualitative research design. Qualitative Social Work, 5(2), 261-277.
Ungar, M. (2006). Nurturing hidden resilience in at-risk youth across cultures. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 15(2), 53-58.
Ungar, M. (2006). Practising as a postmodern supervisor. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 32(1), 59-72.
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2005
Armstrong, M., Birnie-Lefcovich, S. & Ungar, M. (2005). Pathways between social support, quality of parenting and child resilience: A transactional model. Journal of Family and Child Studies, 14(2), 269-281.
Ungar, M. (2005). Pathways to resilience among children in Child Welfare, Corrections, Mental Health and Educational settings: Navigation and Negotiation. Child and Youth Care Forum 34(6), 423-444.
Ungar, M. (2005). Resilience among children in child welfare, corrections, mental health and educational settings: Recommendations for service. Child and Youth Care Forum, 34(6), 445-464.
Ungar, M. (2005). A thicker description of resilience. The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (3-4), 89-96.
Ungar, M., Clark, S., Kwong, W.M., Cameron, A. & Makhnach, A. (2005). Researching resilience across cultures. Journal of Cultural and Ethnic Social Work, 14(3/4), 1-20.
Ungar, M., Dumont, C. & MacDonald, W. (2005). Risk, resilience and outdoor programming for at-risk children. Journal of Social Work, 5(3), 319-338.
Ungar, M., Lee. A.W., Callaghan, T. & Boothroyd, R. (2005). An international collaboration to study resilience in adolescents across cultures. Journal of Social Work Research and Evaluation, 6(1), 5-24.
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2004
Campbell, C.G. & Ungar, M. (2004). Constructing a life that works: Part One. The fit between postmodern family therapy and career counselling. The Career Development Quarterly, 53(1), 16-27.
Campbell, C.G. & Ungar, M. (2004). Constructing a life that works: Part Two. An approach to practice. The Career Development Quarterly, 53(1), 28-40.
Ungar, M. (2004). A constructionist discourse on resilience: Multiple contexts, multiple realities among at-risk children and youth. Youth and Society, 35(3), 341-365.
Ungar, M. (2004). Bullies and bullied alike. Relational Child & Youth Care Practice, 17(3), 5-10.
Ungar, M. (2004). Surviving as a postmodern social worker: The 2P’s and 3R’s of practice. Social Work, 49(3), 488-496.
Ungar, M. (2004). The importance of parents and other caregivers to the resilience of high-risk adolescents. Family Process, 43(1), 23-42.
Ungar, M. (2004). The peer pressure myth. Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, 17(1), 11-17.
Ungar, M., Manuel, S., Mealey, S., Thomas, G. & Campbell, C. (2004). A Study of Community Guides: Lessons for Professionals Practicing With/in Communities. Social Work, 49(4), 550-569.
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2003
Campbell, C. & Ungar, M. (2003). Deconstructing knowledge claims: Epistemological challenges in social work education. Progressive Human Services, 14(1), 41-60.
Smit, A. G. and Liebenberg, L. (2003). Understanding the dynamics of parent-involvement in schooling within the poverty context. South African Journal of Education, 23(1): 1-15.
Ungar, M. (2003). Deep ecology and the roots of resilience: The importance of setting in outdoor experience-based programming for at-risk children. Critical Social Work, 3(1), 18-43.
Ungar, M. (2003). Lessons on “otherness”: Reflections on family therapy while travelling with children through the Middle East. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 22(4), 1-14.
Ungar, M. (2003). The professional social ecologist: Social work redefined. Canadian Social Work Review, 20(1), 5-23.
Ungar, M. (2003). Resilience, resources and relationships: Making integrated services more family-like. Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, 16(3), 45-57.
Ungar, M. (2003). Response to letter to the editor from Dr. Geoffrey Greif, re: “A deeper, more social ecological social work practice.” Social Service Review, 77(2), 309-311.
Ungar, M. (2003). Qualitative contributions to resilience research. Qualitative Social Work, 2(1), 85-102.
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2002 and earlier
Ungar, M. (2002). A deeper, more social ecological social work practice. Social Service Review, 76(3), 480-497.
Ungar, M. (2002). Alliances and Power: Social worker-community relationships. Canadian Social Work Review, 19(2), 227-244.
Ungar, M. (2001). The Unapologetic Qualitative Social Work Researcher: A Critical look at Research Methods and Questions. Social Work and Social Sciences Review 9(2), 17-24.
Ungar, M. (2001). The social construction of resilience among problem youth in out-of-home placement: A study of health-enhancing deviance. Child and Youth Care Forum, 30(3), 137-154.
Ungar, M. (2001). Constructing narratives of resilience with high-risk youth. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 20(2), 58-73.
Ungar, M., Teram, E. & Picketts, J. (2001). Young Offenders and their communities: Reframing the institution as an extension of the community. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 20(2), 29-42.
Ungar, M (2000). The myth of peer pressure: Adolescents and their search for health-enhancing identities. Adolescence, 35(137), 167-180.
Ungar, M. & Teram, E. (2000). Drifting towards mental health: High-risk adolescents and the process of empowerment. Youth and Society, 32(2), 225-252.
