Is resilience still a useful concept when working with children and young people

This paper reviews some of the complexities and issues surrounding the concept of resilience in order to ascertain its usefulness for practitioners working with children. The paper offers a brief history of the research as well as an investigation of how resilience is defined, measured and used in practice.

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