Building and utilising resilience: The challenges and coping mechanisms of care leavers in Ghana
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Individual, relational, and communal protective factors interact to contribute to resilience and well-being in care leavers.
“Individual (i.e., self-efficacy, emotional regulation, social competency), relational (i.e. sense of belonging, relationships), and communal protective factors (i.e. faith and community traditions, education) interact to contribute to resilience and well-being in care leavers (Bhargava et al., 2018; Frimpong-Manso, 2018; Gilligan, 2001; Perera, 2018; Refaeli, 2017; Sulimani-Aidan, 2017).”
From The relationship between spirituality and resilience and well-being: a study of 529 care leavers from 11 nations. (2023) · cites this paper as Frimpong-Manso, 2018
Social relationships, financial support, social environment, access to services, peer support, personal factors, and more have been shown to support better outcomes in care leavers.
“To date, social relationships, financial support, social environment, access to services, peer support, personal factors, and more (Bryant-Davis & Wong, 2013; Frimpong-Manso, 2018; Scott et al., 2022; Sulimani-Aidan & Melkman, 2018; van Breda & Dickens, 2017) have been shown to support better outcomes in this population.”
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- Authors
- Frimpong-Manso, K.
- Venue
- Children and Youth Services Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-04
- Volume
- 87
- Pages
- 52-59
- ISSN
- 0190-7409 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2792385494
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 9.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Children and Youth Services Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Homelessness and Social Issues
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Keywords
- care leavers, resilience, coping strategies, residential care, orphanages, youth employment, housing, social integration, social support, self-reliance, stigma, protective factors, risk factors, Ghana
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