Abstract
This chapter focuses on youth transitions, in particular young people aging out of care into young adulthood. It emphasizes resilience as a set of interactions between people and other people and systems, located within the person-in-environment framework common to social work. Several studies by academics and students on care-leaving in South Africa are used to illustrate how resilience can helpfully be thought of as interactional, rather than only personal or only environmental. Drawing on this body of research, this chapter presents a model of interactional resilience for fostering a resilience-enabling interactive social environment for care-leavers that can be applied at micro, meso and macro levels and that is of relevance to all youth in transition from childhood to adulthood.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Resilience Enhancement in Social Work Practice |
| Subtitle of host publication | Anti-Oppressive Social Work Skills and Techniques |
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
| Pages | 187-208 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031385186 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783031385179 |
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| Publication status | Published - 28 Sept 2023 |
Keywords
- Aging out of care
- Interactional resilience
- Leaving care
- Multisystemic resilience
- Resilience
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology
- General Social Sciences