title: Resilience Processes Supporting Adolescents With Intellectual Disability: A Multiple Case Study.
abstract: Resilience, or the process of adjusting well to risk, relies on constructive collaboration between youths and their social ecologies. Although the literature details the risks of an intellectual disability (ID), there is little explanation of why some young people cope well despite these risks. Accordingly, we report a multiple case study that affords insight into the resilience of 24 adolescents with ID. Using a draw-and-talk methodology, these young people explained their resilience as enabled primarily by supportive social ecologies (which facilitated behavioral and emotional regulation, encouraged mastery, treated them as agentic beings, and offered safe spaces). Adolescents' positive orientation to their life-worlds co-facilitated their resilience. These insights advance effective ways to champion the resilience of young people with ID.
authors.affiliation: Anna-Marié Hall, North-West University, Optentia Research Focus Area, Gauteng, South Africa; and.
authors.forename: Anna-Marié
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.affiliation: Linda Theron, North-West University, Optentia Research Focus Area, Gauteng, South Africa.
authors.forename: Linda C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Theron
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support
keywords: adolescents; at-risk; drawings; intellectual disability; multiple case study; qualitative research; resilience; social ecology; visual methods