Ungar's Resilience Theory: Principles for Intervention and Well-being

This report delves into Michael Ungar's Resilience Theory, emphasizing its ecological and culturally sensitive perspective. It highlights the importance of understanding resilience as the capacity of individuals to navigate social, psychological, and cultural resources to sustain well-being. The report focuses on the five key principles for intervention: communication, connection to others, competence and commitment, confidence, and control. It emphasizes the shift from an individual to a collective approach, analyzing well-being within cultural contexts and the role of support systems in fostering resilience. Ungar's theory underscores the significance of accessing resources and negotiating for them in meaningful ways, leading to positive outcomes for individuals, families, and communities. The report references relevant literature, including works by Liebenberg and Ungar (2017) and Ungar and Theron (2020).

Putting Resilience Theory into
Action Five Principles for
Intervention by Ungar 2008

1. Ungar understands resilience by using more ecological and culturally sensitive definition
because in terms of exposure to the important concept of adversity, resilience is
considered as the capacity of individuals for navigating the way to social, psychological,
physical and cultural resources which helps in sustaining their well being (Ungar, 2018).
Also, Ungar identified that resilience means the capacity of the individuals and the
groups for negotiating regarding these resources to be provided in more meaningful ways
culturally.
2. This is why, the concept of resilience shifts from individual to collective one which deals
in more culturally embedded analyzing of well-being. This was done by taking support of
various well-trained researchers and providers of human services. This definition forced
Ungar to focus more on ecological terms instead of laying emphasis on individual terms.
The resilience theory and its five principles can be put into action include
communication, connection to others, competence and commitment, confidence and
control (Liebenberg and Ungar, 2017). This is how; Michael Ungar considers a holistic
way to develop resilience. He described that resilience must be considered as social
construct which helps in identifying both the processes as well as the outcomes which are
integrated with the ways in which people consider themselves as well being. When the
services, health resources and support is provided then only the resilience is likely to
occur. This makes it more likely for the child to perform well in various ways which can
be proved meaningful to individuals or their families or community as a whole (Ungar
and Theron, 2020). Therefore, Michael Ungar 2008 is the result of both successful
navigation to the resources and negotiation for same for providing in meaningful ways.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Liebenberg, L. and Ungar, M., 2017. 1. Introduction: The Challenges in Researching Resilience.
In Researching resilience (pp. 3-25). University of Toronto Press.
Ungar, M. and Theron, L., 2020. Resilience and mental health: How multisystemic processes
contribute to positive outcomes. The Lancet Psychiatry. 7(5). pp.441-448.
Ungar, M., 2018. Systemic resilience. Ecology and Society. 23(4).
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