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This chapter discusses the intergenerational transmission of resilience from a sociocultural and structural point of view. It highlights anti-oppressive intervention strategies used in the resilience-enhancing stress model (RESM) that address the fact that the large-scale societal risks that may lead to environmental injustice are disproportionately distributed across subpopulations of US society. As a result, vulnerable individuals and social groups may experience discrimination-related stress and a decrease in resilient social functioning. At the same time, societal and sociocultural environmental influences can act as protective factors that can contribute to the enhancement of resilience, growth, and transformation. As social workers come to understand a client’s or constituency’s meaning of sociocultural events, this knowledge can inform their choice of RESM assessment and intervention skills that ameliorate discriminatory stress.
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- Ethnosystem
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A group bound together by shared, unique historical and cultural ties and a relative degree of societal power.
- Local control
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Describing a situation in which services are constructed and delivered in a manner that is congruent with the culture of the people in the community that is being served.
- Posttraumatic growth
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Growth that results from benefiting from or transforming following adversity.
- Power differential
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A difference in power between groups of people based on perceived differences in valuation.
- Relational view of development
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A view of the self as shaped by the collective in which one lives.
- Resiling
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Responding to a challenge or threat, such as in the aftermath of a natural disaster or war, or discrimination or persecution.
- Return to the sacred path
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Indigenous ceremonies and spiritual practices performed to heal.
- Sociocultural history
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People’s lived experiences and present telling of events.
- Structural racism
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A form of discrimination that limits people’s access to goods and services based on race.
- Takini
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A Lakota term that means “survivor or one who has been brought back to life.”
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Greene, R., Greene, N., Corley, C. (2023). Facilitating Community Development Following Disruption. In: Greene, R., Greene, N., Corley, C. (eds) Resilience Enhancement in Social Work Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38518-6_11
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