Table of Contents

Author’s Note
Preface

1. The Right Amount of Risk and Responsibility
2. Substitutes for Problems
3. The Risk-­Taker’s Advantage
4. Overprotected or Under-­Supervised
5. Reckless Children
6. Risk? What Risk?
7. Speaking in Ways Risk-­Takers Can Hear
8. Connecting
9. Slim Pickings
10. Decisions, Decisions
11. Coming Home

Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

About the Author

Michael Ungar is an internationally recognized expert on resilience in at-risk youth and leads the International Resilience Project that includes researchers in eleven countries. He teaches at the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University and runs a private practice specializing in working with children and adults in mental health and correctional settings. He has lectured extensively on the subject of resilience and is the author of four books and dozens of professional and scholarly articles. Michael Ungar lives in Halifax with his wife and two children.