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Current Research on Resilience

Current Research on Resilience from CAIR

The following are a list of published peer-reviewed research articles written by CAIR Researchers. Accordion Closed

  1. Bauer, M. (May 2016). Connection and Community: Diné College emphasizes real-world experience in public health. Tribal College Journal. Retrieved from https://tribalcollegejournal.org/connection-and-community-dine-college-emphasizes-real-world-experience-in-public-health/
  2. Chico,-Jarillo, T.M., Crozier, A., & Teufel-Shone, N.I., Hutchens, T., & George, M.  (2016). A brief evaluation of a project to engage American Indian young people as agents of change in health promotion through radio programming,Arizona, 2009–2013. Preventing Chronic Disease., 13, 150416. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.150416
  3. Darroch, F., Giles, A., Sanderson, P., Brooks-Cleator, L., Schwartz, A., Joseph, D., & Nosker, R. (2016). The United States does CAIR about cultural safety: examining cultural safety within Indigenous health contexts in Canada and the United States. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, (ePub). DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F1043659616634170
  4. Hardy, L. J., Hughes, A., Hulen, E., Schwartz, A. (2016). Implementing qualitative data management plans to ensure ethical standards in multi-partner centers. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 11(2), 191–198. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F1556264616636233
  5. Hardy, L. J., Hulen, E. (2016). Anthropologists address health equity: recognizing barriers to care. Practicing Anthropology, 38(2), 15–17. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552-38.2.15
  6. Hardy, L. J., Hughs, A., Hulen, E., Figueroa-Flores, A., Evans, C., Begay, C. (2015). Hiring the experts: best practices for supporting community engaged research. Qualitative Research, 16(5), 592-600. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F1468794115579474
  7. Hardy, L. J., Figueroa, A., Hughes, A., Hulen, E., Corrales, C., Scranton, R., Begay, C. (2014). Toolkit for Community-engaged Wellness Mapping. CES4Health.info 2014. /CAIR/WellnessMapping2014_CES4Health/
  8. Kahn, C. B., Reinschmidt, K. M., Teufel-Shone, N. I., Oré, C. E., Henson, M., & Attakai, A. (2016). American Indian elders’ resilience: sources of strength for building a health future for youth. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 23(3), 117-133. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5820/aian.2303.2016.117
  9. Oré, C. E., Teufel-Shone, N. I., Chico-Jarillo, T. M. (2016). American Indian and Alaska Native resilience along the life course and across generations: a literature review. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 23(3), 134-157. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5820/aian.2303.2016.134
  10. Reinschmidt, K. M., Attakai, A., Kahn, C. B., Whitewater, S., & Teufel-Shone, N. (2016). Shaping a Stories of Resilience Model from urban American Indian elders’ narratives of historical trauma and resilience. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 23(4), 63-85. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5820/aian.2304.2016.63
  11. Teufel-Shone, N. I., Tippens, J. A., McCrary, H. C., Ehiri, J. E., & Sanderson, P. R. (2016). Resilience in American Indian and Alaska Native public health: An underexplored framework. American Journal of Health Promotion, 1-8. (ePub). DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F0890117116664708
  12. Trotter, R. T., Huenneke, L. F., Laurila, K., Alberts, D. (2015). A diagnostic evaluation model for complex research partnerships with community engagement: The Native American cancer prevention program. Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning, 48, 10-20. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2014.09.001
  13. Whitewater, S., Reinschmidt, K. M., Kahn, C., Attakai, A., Teufel-Shone, N. I. (2016). Flexible roles for American Indian elders in community-based participatory research. Preventing Chronic Disease, 13, 150575. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.150575

Research on Resilience from Other Published Articles

The following are a list of other peer-reviewed articles with a focus on resilience and positive outcomes. Accordion Closed

  1. Brokenleg, M. (2010). The Resilience Revolution: Our Original Collaboration. Reclaiming Children & Youth, 18(4), 8-11
  2. Brokenleg, M. (2012). Transforming Cultural Trauma into Resilience. Reclaiming Children & Youth, 21(3), 9-13.
  3. Denham, A. (2008). Rethinking historical trauma: narratives of resilience. Transcultural Psychiatry, 45(3), 391-414 24p.
  4. Fast, E., & Collin-Vézina, D. (2010). Historical Trauma, Race-based Trauma and Resilience of Indigenous Peoples: A literature review. First Peoples Child & Family Review, 5(1), 126-136.
  5. Feinstein, S., Driving-Hawk, C., & Baartman, J. (2009). Resiliency and Native American Teenagers. Reclaiming Children & Youth,18(2), 12-17.
  6. Fleming, J., & Ledogar, R. J. (2008). Resilience and indigenous spirituality: A literature review. Pimatisiwin: A Journal Of Aboriginal & Indigenous Community Health, 6(2), 47-64.
  7. Fleming, J., & Ledogar, R. J. (2008). Resilience, an evolving concept: A review of literature relevant to Aboriginal research. Pimatisiwin: A Journal Of Aboriginal & Indigenous Community Health,6(2), 7-23.
  8. Garrett, M. T., Parrish, M., Williams, C., Grayshield, L., Portman, T. A., Torres Rivera, E., & Maynard, E. (2014). Invited commentary: Fostering resilience among Native American youth through therapeutic intervention. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43(3), 470-490. doi:10.1007/s10964-013-0020-8
  9. Garrett, M. T., Parrish, M., Williams, C., Portman, T. A., & Grayshield, L. (2014). Where power moves: Understanding and fostering resilience among Native American youth. In M. T. Garrett, M. T. Garrett (Eds.) , Youth and adversity: Psychology and influences of child and adolescent resilience and coping (pp. 67-100). Hauppauge, NY, US: Nova Biomedical Books.
  10. Grandbois, D. M., & Sanders, G. F. (2012). Resilience and stereotyping: The experiences of Native American elders. Journal Of Transcultural Nursing, 23(4), 389-396. doi:10.1177/1043659612451614
  11. Grandbois, D., & Sanders, G. (2009). The resilience of Native American elders. Issues In Mental Health Nursing, 30(9), 569-580 12p. doi:10.1080/01612840902916151
  12. Hample, C., & Didrickson, A. (2007). Strong heart, body, mind, and spirit: building resilience and facilitating recovery in Native youth. Northwest Public Health, 24(1), 12-13 2p.
  13. Iseke, J. M. (2011). Indigenous Digital Storytelling in Video: Witnessing with Alma Desjarlais. Equity & Excellence In Education, 44(3), 311-329. doi:10.1080/10665684.2011.591685
  14. Kelley, A., & Small, C. (2016). Establishing the reliability and validity of the Sources of Strength in one American Indian community. American Indian And Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 23(2), 84-92. doi:10.5820/aian.2302.2016.84
  15. Kirmayer, L., Dandeneau, S., Marshall, E., Phillips, M., & Williamson, K. (2011). Rethinking resilience from indigenous perspectives. Canadian Journal Of Psychiatry,56(2), 84-91 8p.
  16. LaFromboise, T. D., Hoyt, D. R., Oliver, L., & Whitbeck, L. B. (2006). Family, community, and school influences on resilience among American Indian adolescents in the upper midwest. Journal of Community Psychology, 34(2), 193-209. doi:10.1002/jcop.20090
  17. Markstrom, C. A., & Moilanen, K. L. (2016). School, community, and cultural connectedness as predictors of adjustment among rural American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adolescents. In L. J. Crockett, G. Carlo, L. J. Crockett, G. Carlo (Eds.) , Rural ethnic minority youth and families in the United States: Theory, research, and applications (pp. 109-126). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20976-0_7
  18. McMahon, T., Kenyon, D., & Carter, J. (2013). ‘My culture, my family, my school, me’: Identifying strengths and challenges in the lives and communities of American Indian Youth. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 22(5), 694-706. doi:10.1007/s10826-012-9623-z
  19. Milne, T., Creedy, D., & West, R. (2016). Integrated systematic review on educational strategies that promote academic success and resilience in undergraduate indigenous students. Nurse Education Today, 36387-394 8p. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2015.10.008
  20. Ramirez, L. C., & Hammack, P. L. (2014). Surviving colonization and the quest for healing: Narrative and resilience among California Indian tribal leaders. Transcultural Psychiatry,51(1), 112-133 22p. doi:10.1177/1363461513520096
  21. Robbins, R., Robbins, S., & Stennerson, B. (2013). Native American family resilience. In D. S. Becvar, D. S. Becvar (Eds.) , Handbook of family resilience (pp. 197-213). New York, NY, US: Springer Science + Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3917-2_12
  22. Schultz, K., Cattaneo, L. B., Sabina, C., Brunner, L., Jackson, S., & Serrata, J. V. (2016). Key roles of community connectedness in healing from trauma. Psychology Of Violence, 6(1), 42-48. doi:10.1037/vio0000025
  23. Schure, M. B., Odden, M., & Goins, R. T. (2013). The association of resilience with mental and physical health among older American Indians: The Native elder case study. American Indian & Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal Of The National Center, 20(2), 27-41.
  24. Shea, J. M., Poudrier, J., Chad, K., Jeffery, B., Thomas, R., & Burnouf, K. (2013). In their own words: First Nations girls’ resilience as reflected through their understandings of health. Pimatisiwin: A Journal Of Aboriginal & Indigenous Community Health, 11(1), 1-15.
  25. Stumblingbear-Riddle, G., & Romans, J. C. (2012). Resilience among urban American Indian adolescents: Exploration into the role of culture, self-esteem, subjective well-being, and social support. American Indian & Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of The National Center, 19(2), 1-19.
  26. Wexler, L. (2014). Looking across three generations of Alaska Natives to explore how culture fosters indigenous resilience. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(1), 73-92 20p. doi:10.1177/1363461513497417
  27. Wexler, L. M., DiFluvio, G., & Burke, T. K. (2009). Resilience and marginalized youth: Making a case for personal and collective meaning-making as part of resilience research in public health. Social Science & Medicine, 69(4), 565-570. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.06.022
  28. Wexler, L., Joule, L., Garoutte, J., Mazziotti, J., & Hopper, K. (2014). ‘Being responsible, respectful, trying to keep the tradition alive:’ Cultural resilience and growing up in an Alaska Native community. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(5), 693-712. doi:10.1177/1363461513495085
  29. Wexler, L., Moses, J., Hopper, K., Joule, L., & Garoutte, J. (2013). Central Role of Relatedness in Alaska Native Youth Resilience: Preliminary Themes from One Site of the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) Study. American Journal Of Community Psychology,52(3/4), 393-405. doi:10.1007/s10464-013-9605-3
  30. Wilson, D.S. & O’Brien, D.T. (2008). Human prosociality from an evolutionary perspective: variation and correlations at a city-wide scale. In preparation

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