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Resiliency: What We Have Learnedreviewed by Beverly Hardcastle Stanford - 2005 Title: Resiliency: What We Have Learned Author(s): Bonnie Benard Publisher: WestEd, San Francisco ISBN: 0914409182, Pages: 148, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com In her book Resiliency: What We Have Learned, Bonnie
Benard updates her earlier, often-referenced book Fostering
Resiliency in Kids: Protective Factors in the Family, School, and
Community (1991) and draws on her subsequent publications on
promoting resiliency in adolescents (1996, 1999, 2002,). The
deceptively slim volume is packed with findings from several
hundred research studies, programs, and projects, and insights from
theorists in the youth resiliency field and those related to it.
The 380 references since her 1991 book indicate the depth of her
updating endeavor.
At a time when schools and legislators are focused on assessment
and accountability and the concept of evidence-based practice has
expanded from the nursing and health fields to education and social
work, the good news of Benard’s book is that it has the
evidence. If you think small schools are better for adolescents
than large ones, the book has the studies to prove that that is so.
If you think that family support... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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