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This volume entitled Resilience Interventions for Youth in Diverse Populations will present empirically supported programs and interventions designed to enhance resilience and describe how these methods have been approached and applied across children, context, and unique circumstances. This volume follows up on our previously published volume—Resiliency in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Translating Research into Practice (Prince-Embury and Saklofske, 2013). That volume addressed the need in the study of resilience for clarification and translation of these constructs for practical application. Although discussions of resilience and resiliency are not new (Prince-Embury, 2013), the systematic study of interventions to enhance resiliency is still in its formative stage. The aim of this volume is to begin such a systematic study as well as identify, clarify, and present current programs for children to a wider audience. We have focused in this volume on resilience interventions for youth based on developmental literature suggesting that early development presents the best opportunity for preventive intervention in that the effects of both protective and risk factors are developmentally cumulative.
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Prince-Embury, S., Saklofske, D.H. (2014). Building a Science of Resilience Intervention for Youth. In: Prince-Embury, S., Saklofske, D. (eds) Resilience Interventions for Youth in Diverse Populations. The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0542-3_1
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