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Resilience: Causal Pathways and Social Ecology

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The author distinguishes resilience from concepts of positive psychology and competence by showing that there is heterogeneity in how humans respond to environmental hazards, whether those are physical or psychological. His goal is to explore these different responses in order to discover the causal processes that relate to resilience. His chapter shows the wisdom that comes with more than four decades of research in this area.

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  1. The Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK

    Michael Rutter

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  1. School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Coburg Road 6414, Halifax, B3H 2A7, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Michael Ungar

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Rutter, M. (2012). Resilience: Causal Pathways and Social Ecology. In: Ungar, M. (eds) The Social Ecology of Resilience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0586-3_3

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