Study on resilience for developing social work practice model: through an international cooperation study

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530743
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Kanto Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: AKIYAMA Keiji 関東学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (50133575)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): UNGAR Michael Resilience Research Centre(RRC), Professor of Dalhousie University ; LIEBENBERG Linda Resilience Research Centre(RRC), Adjunct Professor of Dalhousie University
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SOEDA Akemi 関東学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (60154697) ; SHIBUYA Masashi 関東学院大学, 文学部, 准教授 (80460145)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: リジリエンス / アドバーシティ / コミュニティ / ソーシャルワーク / 災害 / 人と環境

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Resilience refers to individual’s processes of, capacity for, or patterns of positive adaptation during or following exposure to adverse experiences. The theoretical frame work for resilience research with children drew on developmental systems theory, the principles of developmental psychology and ecological model of development. In this broad and integrative perspective, resilience arises from processes of interaction across multiple level of functioning.This connotes that the resilience is capable to construct a new paradigm for social work practice. The research made here is to construct a new social work frame of reference by resilience perspective which covers from micro to macro systems. Community resilience is clearly seen as mezzo system functioning. It is noteworthy that this research has reached the point that resilience seems to be a useful perspective for the theoretical social work practice model.

Free Research Field

ソーシャルワーク実践方法論