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This volume brings together scholars and practitioners from Health Psychology, Social Work, Medical Anthropology, Child Life Specialty, Palliative Care, Public Health, and Nursing with the goal of beginning an interdisciplinary conversation about young people’s medical resilience. This introductory chapter begins by suggesting an integrative framework termed “Relational Resilience,” that is particularly well suited to the interdisciplinary scope of this project. The volume demonstrates that when children and families are supported through close personal relationships, through institutional partnerships, and through equitable political processes, they are better able to sustain well-being; they are more resilient. By thinking broadly about the complex topic of pediatric resilience, we are able to highlight emerging points of consensus across fields and illuminate promising areas for future research.
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For a relational approach in: Psychology see Urie Bronfenbrenner’s “social ecological theory” (2006), Willis Overton’s “relational-development-systems” theory (2015), Mascolo and Fischer (2015), Ayoub and Fischer (2006); in Sociology see Mische (2011), Emirbayer (1997); in bioethics see Sherwin (1992), Mackenzie and Stoljar (2000); in medical anthropology see Panter-Brick (2014), Sharp (2006)
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DeMichelis, C. (2016). Relational Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. In: DeMichelis, C., Ferrari, M. (eds) Child and Adolescent Resilience Within Medical Contexts. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32223-0_1
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