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Challenging Resilience as a Buzzword: Toward a Contextualized Resilience Model

Zenobia Morrill - September 10, 2018 2

Researcher Dr. Silke Schwarz highlights how Western psychology’s construction of individual resilience deflects emphasized individual pathology and deflects efforts at structural change.

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