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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Michael Ungar is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada and conducts research primarily in the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work focuses extensively on clinical psychology, general health professions, sociology and political science, safety research, and social psychology.

The main research topics covered in their work include resilience and mental health, migration, health and trauma, youth development and social support, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child abuse and trauma, health, psychology and well-being, as well as homelessness and social issues.

Ungar has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several academic venues. These include Adversity and Resilience Science, Frontiers in Psychology, Emerging Adulthood, Research on Social Work Practice, and the PsycTESTS Dataset series.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ungar demonstrate a focus on resilience, mental health, and youth across international contexts. Key publications include:

  • "Researching Multisystemic Resilience: A Sample Methodology," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Social anxiety in young people: A prevalence study in seven countries," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "The Dark Side of Resilience," 2021, Adversity and Resilience Science
  • "Trauma, Resilience, and Mental Health in Migrant and Non-Migrant Youth: An International Cross-Sectional Study Across Six Countries," 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "A Cross-Country Network Analysis of Adolescent Resilience," 2020, Journal of Adolescent Health

Their frequent collaborators provide additional perspectives and expertise in their shared research efforts. Notable coauthors include Linda Theron, Philip Jefferies, Jan Höltge, Diane Levine, and Nilüfer Kuru.

Ungar's contributions to social sciences and psychology were recognized in 2018 when they were named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Resilience across Cultures

    Michael Ungar

  • The social ecology of resilience: addressing contextual and cultural ambiguity of a nascent construct.

    Michael Ungar

  • A Constructionist Discourse on Resilience: Multiple Contexts, Multiple Realities among At-Risk Children and Youth

    Michael Ungar

  • Resilience, Trauma, Context, and Culture

    Michael Ungar

  • Annual Research Review: What is resilience within the social ecology of human development?

    Michael Ungar;Mehdi Ghazinour;Jörg Richter

  • Assessing Resilience Across Cultures Using Mixed Methods: Construction of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure:

    Michael Ungar;Linda Liebenberg

  • Pathways Between Social Support, Family Well Being, Quality of Parenting, and Child Resilience: What We Know

    Mary I. Armstrong;Shelly Birnie-Lefcovitch;Michael T. Ungar

  • Resilience and mental health: how multisystemic processes contribute to positive outcomes.

    Michael Ungar;Linda C. Theron

  • Unique pathways to resilience across cultures

    Michael Ungar;Marion Brown;Linda Liebenberg;Rasha Othman

  • The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

    Michael Ungar

  • Validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-28 (CYRM-28) Among Canadian Youth:

    Linda Liebenberg;Michael Ungar;Fons Van de Vijver

  • Handbook for working with children and youth : pathways to resilience across cultures and contexts

    Michael Ungar

  • Nurturing hidden resilience in troubled youth

    Michael Ungar

  • Qualitative contributions to resilience research

    Michael Ungar

  • Social Ecologies and Their Contribution to Resilience

    Michael Ungar

  • Practitioner Review: Diagnosing childhood resilience – a systemic approach to the diagnosis of adaptation in adverse social and physical ecologies

    Michael Ungar

  • Community resilience for youth and families: Facilitative physical and social capital in contexts of adversity

    Michael Ungar

  • Systemic resilience: principles and processes for a science of change in contexts of adversity

    Michael Ungar

  • The CYRM-12: a brief measure of resilience.

    Linda Liebenberg;Michael Ungar;John C. LeBlanc

  • A Deeper, More Social Ecological Social Work Practice

    Michael Ungar

  • The Study of Youth Resilience Across Cultures: Lessons from a Pilot Study of Measurement Development

    Michael Ungar;Linda Liebenberg;Roger Boothroyd;Wai Man Kwong

  • The importance of parents and other caregivers to the resilience of high-risk adolescents.

    Michael Ungar

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashok Malla
Ashok Malla McGill University
Kim Foster
Kim Foster Australian Catholic University
Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Fons J. R. van de Vijver Tilburg University
Andrew J. Martin
Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales
Rebecca J. Collie
Rebecca J. Collie University of New South Wales
Sherry H. Stewart
Sherry H. Stewart Dalhousie University
Sebastiaan Rothmann
Sebastiaan Rothmann North-West University
Christine Wekerle
Christine Wekerle McMaster University
Lawrence H. Ganong
Lawrence H. Ganong University of Missouri
Daniel A. Waschbusch
Daniel A. Waschbusch Pennsylvania State University

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