Books & Special Issues
Book Chapters
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications
Books & Special Issues
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Ungar, M. (2011). Counseling in challenging contexts: Working with individuals and families across clinical and community settings. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole. |
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Liebenberg, L. & Ungar, M. (Eds) (2009). Researching resilience. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. |
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Ungar, M. (2009). The we generation: Raising socially responsible kids. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart. |
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Ungar, M. & Lerner, R. (Eds.) (2008). Special Issue: Resilience and positive development across the life span. Research in Human Development, 5(3). |
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Campbell, C. & Ungar, M. (2008). The decade after high school: A professional's guide. Toronto, ON: The Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling. |
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Campbell, C., Ungar, M. & Dutton, P. (2008). The decade after high school: A parent's guide. Toronto, ON: The Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling. |
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Carrey, N. & Ungar, M. (Eds) (2007). Resilience. Monograph for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 16(2). |
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Liebenberg, L. & Ungar, M. (Eds) (2008). Resilience in action. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. |
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Ungar, M. (2007). Too safe for their own good. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart. |
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Ungar, M. (2007). Playing at being bad: The hidden resilience of troubled teens. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart. |
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Ungar, M. (2006). Strengths-based counseling for at-risk youth. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. |
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Ungar, M. (Ed.) (2005). Handbook for working with children and youth: Pathways to resilience across cultures and contexts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. |
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Ungar, M. (2004). Nurturing hidden resilience in troubled youth. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. |
Book Chapters
Ungar, M. (in press). Cultural dimensions of resilience among adults. In J. Reich and A. Zautra (Eds.), Adult resilience. Oxford University Press.
Ungar, M. (in press). A sample research proposal for a mixed-methods investigation of resilience: The Pathways to Resilience Project. In L. Liebenberg & M. Ungar (Eds.), Researching resilience. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ungar, M. (in press). Researching culturally diverse pathways to resilience: Challenges and solutions. In H.M. McCubbin (Ed.), Multiethnic Families. Honolulu, Hawaii: Le’a Press.
Bywater, P. & Ungar, M. (in press). Research in mental health settings. In K. Briar-Lawson, J. Orme, R. Ruckdeschel & I. Shaw (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Work Research.
Ungar, M., Toste, J. & Heath, N. (in press). Assessing resilience. In E. Mpofu & T. Oakland (Eds.), Assessment in rehabilitation and health. Allyn & Bacon.
Duque, L., Ungar, M. & Caicedo, B. (in press). Highlighting the importance of early intervention: The early prevention of aggressive behaviour program in Medellin Colombia. In B. McLure and M. Denov (Eds.). Interventions and Children’s Rights. Cambridge University Press.
Ungar, M. (2008). Putting resilience theory into action: Five principles for intervention. In L. Liebenberg & M. Ungar (Eds.), Resilience in action (pp.17-38). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ungar, M. (2007). Contextual and cultural aspects of resilience in child welfare settings. In I. Brown, F. Chaze, D. Fuchs, J. lafrance, S. McKay & S. Thomas Prokop (Eds.), Putting a human face on child welfare (pp. 1-24). Toronto: Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare.
Ungar, M. (2007). Grow ‘em strong: Methodological challenges researching childhood resilience. In A. Best (Ed.), Representing youth: Methodological issues in critical youth studies (pp. 84-109). New York: New York University Press.
Ungar, M. (2005). Introduction: Resilience across cultures and contexts. In M. Ungar (ed.), Handbook for working with children and youth: Pathways to Resilience across cultures and contexts (pp.xv-xxxix). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Ungar, M. & Liebenberg, L. (2005). The International Resilience Project: A mixed methods approach to the study of resilience across cultures. In M. Ungar (ed.), Handbook for working with children and youth: Pathways to Resilience across cultures and contexts (pp.211-226). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Ungar, M. & Teram, E. (2005). Qualitative resilience research: Contributions and risks. In M. Ungar (ed.), Handbook for working with children and youth: Pathways to Resilience across cultures and contexts (pp.149-164). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Duque, L., Klevens, J., Ungar, M. & Lee, A. (2005). Violence prevention programming in Colombia: Challenges in project design and fidelity. In M. Ungar (ed.), Handbook for working with children and youth: Pathways to Resilience across cultures and contexts (pp.455-472). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Ungar, M. & Nichols, G. (2002). The harmony of resistance: Qualitative research and ethical practice in social work. In W. C. van den Hoonaard (ed.), Walking the tightrope: Ethical issues for qualitative researchers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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Peer Reviewed Journal Publications
Ungar, M. (in press). What is resilience across cultures and contexts? Advances to the theory of positive development among individuals and families under stress. Journal of Family Psychotherapy.
Ungar, M., McConnell, S., Tutty, L., Fairholm, J. & Barter, K. (in press). What Canadian youth tell us about disclosing abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect.
Liborio, R. & Ungar, M. (in press). Resiliência oculta: a construção social do conceito e suas implicações para práticas profissionais junto a adolescentes em situação de risco [Hidden resilience: The social construction of the concept and implications for professional practices with at-risk adolescents]. Revista Psicologia, Reflexão e Crítica.
Liborio, R. & Ungar, M. (in press). Children's labour and work as a risky pathway to resilience: Young people's thriving in resource poor contexts. Psicologia Reflexao e Critica.
Liborio, R. & Ungar, M. (in press). Children’s Perspectives on their Economic Activity as a Pathway to Resilience. Childhood and Society.
Ungar, M., Barter, K., McConnell, S., Tutty, L. & Fairholm, J. (in press). Patterns of disclosure among youth. Qualitative Social Work.
Ungar, M. (2009). Resilience practice in action: Five principles for intervention. Social Work Now, 43(August), 32-38.
Ungar, M. & Liebenberg, L. (2009). Cross-cultural consultation leading to the development of a valid measure of youth resilience:The International Resilience Project. Studia Psychologica, 51(2-3), 259-268.
Ungar, M. (2009). Overprotective parenting: Helping parents provide children the right amount of risk and responsibility. American Journal of Family Therapy, 37(3), 258-271.
Little, A., Hartman, L. & Ungar, M. (2008). Creating a narrative-based practice culture: Phoenix Youth Programs case study. Residential Treatment of Children and Youth, 25(4), 319-332.
Ungar, M., Brown, M., Liebenberg, L., Cheung, M. & Levine, K. (2008). Distinguishing differences in pathways to resilience among Canadian youth. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 27(1), 1-13.
Ungar, M., Liebenberg, L., Boothroyd, R., Kwong, W.M., Lee, T.Y., Leblanc, J., Duque, L. & Makhnach, A. (2008). The study of youth resilience across cultures: Lessons from a pilot study of measurement development. Research in Human Development, 5(3), 166-180.
Ungar, M. (2008). Resilience across cultures. British Journal of Social Work, 38(2), 218-235.
Little, A., Hartman, L. & Ungar, M. (2008). Introducing ‘the narrative construal of reality’ and ‘the club of life’. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (1), 46-48.
Hartman, L., Little, A. & Ungar, M. (2008). Narrative inspired youth care work within a community agency. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 27(1), 44-58.
Little, A., Hartman, L. & Ungar, M. (2007). Practical applications of narrative ideas to youth care. Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, 20(4), 37-41.
Ungar, M., Brown, M., Liebenberg, L., Othman, R., Kwong, W.M., Armstrong, M. & Gilgun, J. (2007). Unique pathways to resilience across cultures. Adolescence, 42(166), 287-310.
Cameron, C.A., Ungar, M. & Liebenberg, L. (2007). Cultural understandings of resilience: Roots for wings in the development of affective resources for resilience. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, 16(2), 285-302.
Carrey, N. & Ungar, M. (2007). Resilience theory and the diagnostic and statistical manual: Incompatible bed fellows? Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, 16(2), 497-514.
Ungar, M. & Costanzo, L. (2007). Outsider and insider supervision: Addressing the barriers to MFT supervision. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 26(2), 68-83.
Ungar, M. (2006). “Too ambitious”: What happens when funders misunderstand the strengths of qualitative research design. Qualitative Social Work, 5(2), 261-277.
Ungar, M. (2006). Nurturing hidden resilience in at-risk youth across cultures. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 15(2), 53-58.
Ungar, M. (2006). Practicing as a postmodern supervisor. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 32(1), 59-72.
Ungar, M., Clark, S., Kwong, W.M., Cameron, A. & Makhnach, A. (2005). Researching resilience across cultures. Journal of Cultural and Ethnic Social Work, 14(3/4), 1-20.
Armstrong, M., Birnie-Lefcovich, S. & Ungar, M. (2005). Pathways between social support, quality of parenting and child resilience: A transactional model. Journal of Family and Child Studies, 14(2), 269-281.
Ungar, M. (2005). Pathways to resilience among children in child welfare, corrections, mental health and educational settings: Navigation and negotiation. Child and Youth Care Forum 34(6), 423-444.
Ungar, M. (2005). Resilience among children in child welfare, corrections, mental health and educational settings: Recommendations for service. Child and Youth Care Forum, 34(6), 445-464.
Ungar, M., Dumont, C. & MacDonald, W. (2005). Risk, resilience and outdoor programming for at-risk children. Journal of Social Work, 5(3), 319-338.
Ungar, M. (2005). A thicker description of resilience. The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (3-4), 89-96.
Ungar, M., Lee. A.W., Callaghan, T. & Boothroyd, R. (2005). An international collaboration to study resilience in adolescents across cultures. Journal of Social Work Research and Evaluation, 6(1), 5-24.
Ungar, M. (2004). Bullies and bullied alike. Relational Child & Youth Care Practice, 17(3), 5-10.
Ungar, M., Manuel, S., Mealey, S., Thomas, G. & Campbell, C. (2004). A study of community guides: Lessons for professionals practicing with/in communities. Social Work, 49(4), 550-569.
Campbell, C.G. & Ungar, M. (2004). Constructing a life that works: Part one. The fit between postmodern family therapy and career counselling. The Career Development Quarterly, 53(1), 16-27.
Campbell, C.G. & Ungar, M. (2004). Constructing a life that works: Part two. An approach to practice. The Career Development Quarterly, 53(1), 28-40.
Ungar, M. (2004). Surviving as a postmodern social worker: The 2P’s and 3R’s of practice. Social Work, 49(3), 488-496.
Ungar, M. (2004). The peer pressure myth. Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, 17(1), 11-17.
Ungar, M. (2004). A constructionist discourse on resilience: Multiple contexts, multiple realities among at-risk children and youth. Youth and Society, 35(3), 341-365.
Ungar, M. (2004). The importance of parents and other caregivers to the resilience of high-risk adolescents. Family Process, 43(1), 23-42.
Ungar, M. (2003). Lessons on “otherness”: Reflections on family therapy while travelling with children through the Middle East. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 22(4), 1-14.
Ungar, M. (2003). The professional social ecologist: Social work redefined. Canadian Social Work Review, 20(1), 5-23.
Ungar, M. (2003). Resilience, resources and relationships: Making integrated services more family-like. Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, 16(3), 45-57.
Campbell, C. & Ungar, M. (2003). Deconstructing knowledge claims: Epistemological challenges in social work education. Progressive Human Services, 14(1), 41-60.
Ungar, M. (2003). Deep ecology and the roots of resilience: The importance of setting in outdoor experience-based programming for at-risk children. Critical Social Work, 3(1), 18-43.
Ungar, M. (2003). Qualitative contributions to resilience research. Qualitative Social Work, 2(1), 85-102.
Ungar, M. (2002). Alliances and power: Social worker-community relationships. Canadian Social Work Review, 19(2), 227-244.
Ungar, M. (2002). A deeper, more social ecological social work practice. Social Service Review, 76(3), 480-497.
Ungar, M. (2003). Response to letter to the editor from Dr. Geoffrey Greif, re: “A deeper, more social ecological social work practice.” Social Service Review, 77(2), 309-311.
Ungar, M., Teram, E. & Picketts, J. (2001). Young offenders and their communities: Reframing the institution as an extension of the community. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 20(2), 29-42.
Ungar, M. (2001). The unapologetic qualitative social work researcher: A critical look at research methods and questions. Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 9(2), 17-24.
Ungar, M. (2001). The social construction of resilience among problem youth in out-of-home placement: A study of health-enhancing deviance. Child and Youth Care Forum, 30(3), 137-154.
Ungar, M. (2001). Constructing narratives of resilience with high-risk youth. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 20(2), 58-73.
Ungar, M (2000). The myth of peer pressure: Adolescents and their search for health-enhancing identities. Adolescence, 35(137), 167-180.
Ungar, M. & Teram, E. (2000). Drifting towards mental health: High-risk adolescents and the process of empowerment. Youth and Society, 32(2), 225-252.
Ungar, M. & Levene, J. (1994). The family as a selfobject: Implications for family therapy. Clinical Social Work Journal, 22(3), 303-316.
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