"After a decade of informing students and practitioners in the field, Resiliency: An Integrated Approach to Practice, Policy, and Research (2nd edition) updates Roberta R. Greene's seminal text on resiliency theory for a new decade. Emerging from the ecological and systems frameworks of the profession's person-in-environment, resiliency theory offers social workers a perspective that is empirically based, practical, and focused on personal strengths-not just the difficulties clients face in their lives, both internally and externally, but the resources they can and do draw on to surmount those difficulties. Greene and her contributors elucidate key aspects of resiliency and demonstrate how they apply to social work practice at various system levels, providing theoretically grounded accounts of the environmental factors that support resilient responses in clients. The book also explores issues that affect client resiliency across the life span, including physical health, violence and trauma, aging, mental health, home and school environments, [and] developmental disabilities."--Back cover.

About the editor -- About the contributors -- September 11, 2001 Preface -- Human behavior theory: a resilience orientation / Roberta R. Greene -- Resilience: basic assumptions and terms / Roberta R. Greene and Ann P. Conrad -- Resilience: a social construct / Roberta R. Greene and Nancy C. Livingston -- Resilience research: methodological square pegs and theoretical black holes / William H. Barton -- Resilience and physical health / Joyce Grahl Riley -- Resilience and mental health: a shift in perspective /Robert Blundo -- Surviving violence and trauma: resilience in action at the micro level / Nancy J. Rothenberg -- Resilience and violence at the macro level / Irene Queiro-Tajalli and Craig Campbell -- Raising children in an oppressive environment: voices of resilient adults / Robert R. Greene, Norma J. Taylor, Margaret Evans, and Linda Anderson Smith -- Toward a resilience-based model of school social work: a turnaround mentor / Gerald T. Powers -- Educational resilience /Jean E. Brooks -- Listening to girls: a study in resilience /Marie L. Watkins -- Promoting resilience among returning veterans / Robert Blundo, Roberta R. Greene, and Joyce Grahl Riley -- Resilience and the older adult / Judith S. Lewis and Evelyn B. Harrell -- Applying a risk and resiliece perspective to people with intellectual disabilities / Nancy P. Kropf and Roberta R. Greene -- Resilience and social work policy / Carol Tully -- Index.