Identity Formation and Cultural Resilience in Aboriginal Communities

Abstract

The program of research that I and my colleagues1 have been engaged in, and that I will go on to describe in the pages that follow was never meant to be about resilience. Nor was it meant to be about children in care. It began with studies of identity formation, moved on to encompass studies of youth suicide, and has increasingly come to focus on youth suicide in Aboriginal2cultures. Having admitted to all of that at the outset, the reader might feel in need of something by way of assurance that this chapter actually belongs in the current volume. First, I really do have data to report on children in care. Second, the research that we have been engaged inwhile not expressly about resilience in the usual sense-actually addresses issues of resilience at a cultural rather than an individual level.

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