Coping & Resilience International Conference / Dubrovnik (Croatia)
| October 3, 2009 | to | October 6, 2009 |
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Coping & Resilience International Conference/Dubrovnik (Croatia)
| October 3, 2009 | to | October 6, 2009 |
October 3rd to 6th 2009
The Coping & Resilience International Conference Dubrovnik 2009 (C&R Dubrovnik 2009) will bring together practitioners, researchers, community activists and academics working in the trans-disciplinary area of human coping with diverse challenging life circumstances.
The conference will look into various aspects of the fascinating capacity of human resilience to most adverse life events, as it unfolds. The conference aims to advance evidence-based practices in resilience promotion and hope building. It will explore interplay of individual, family, community and social factors in resilience and provide directions for future practice and research. The C&R Conference Dubrovnik 2009 will attract participants from all continents keen to advance collaboration and networking among different regions and professional fields. Papers, presentations, narratives that focus on strengths based practices around the world will be tabled at this conference.
Conference themes
Given a variety of approaches to studying coping and resilience and hope building issues and practicing skills to enhance each of these areas, this conference is an opportunity for addressing them from a number of perspectives. Presentations will concentrate on the inherent strengths of individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities. Deploying peoples’ personal strengths to aid their recovery and empowerment is the focus of this conference. At the same time we would like the conference participants to help clarify the role of social contexts and social structures in developing and maintaining individual and group resilience. We wish to see strategies that were successful in facilitating positive change as well as those avenues that did not work.
Topics:
- Cross-cultural patterns of coping with hardships
- Coping patterns and resilience factors in migration and acculturation
- Strengths based refugee acceptance policy development
- Personal and developmental factors in coping and resilience
- Interventions for children and youth to enhance resilience in adverse circumstances
- Interventions in the field of education, from early to tertiary schooling
- Resilience after loss and grief
- Poverty, structural inequalities and human resilience: implications for policy making
- Challenges of coping with disability
- Gender issues in coping and resilience
- Resilience mechanisms in recovery from individual and collective trauma
- Posttraumatic growth after extreme suffering
- Challenges of reconciliation in multi-ethnic and post-conflict societies
- Best practices in helping individuals in crisis
- Best practices in empowering communities facing crisis and disasters
- Spirituality, healing systems, alternative therapies and meditation in enhancing resilience
- Remote rural communities, indigenous people and coping with life challenges
- Strengthening resilience through e-communities and use of information technology
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