02/27/2024
On THURSDAY MARCH 14th, 2024, Dr. Michael Ungar, the world's TOP expert, academic, scholar and therapist in the field of helping young people overcome heavy trauma will join us for an interview. This interview is INVALUABLE for teachers looking to ask deep questions on students dealing with trauma whom they desperately want to help.
His Research Topics Include:
Mixed methods
Resilience
Child and adolescent mental health
Family therapy
Ecological social work
Program evaluation
Cross-cultural diversity research
Delinquency
Child development
Social constructionism
Dr. Michael Ungar, Ph.D., is the founder and Director of the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience. In 2022, Dr. Ungar was ranked the number one Social Work scholar in the world in recognition of his ground-breaking work as a family therapist and resilience researcher. That work has influenced the way human adaptation in stressful environments and organizational processes are understood and studied globally, with much of Dr. Ungar’s clinical work and scholarship focused on the resilience of marginalized children and families, and adult populations experiencing mental health challenges at home and in the workplace.
Dr. Ungar provides regular consultation to international NGOs like the Red Cross and Save the Children, government agencies in more than a dozen low, middle, and high-income countries, and educational institutions at all levels of study. He is the author of over 250 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and 17 books. These include Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success, a book for adults experiencing stress at work and at home, Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs, a book for mental health professionals and educators, and Multisystemic Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of Change, an open access edited volume with contributors from a dozen diverse disciplines ranging from epigenetics and psychology to architecture and computing science. His blog, Nurturing Resilience, can be read on Psychology Today’s website.
In recognition of his work, Dr. Ungar was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is the past recipient of the National Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Association of Social Workers, and has sat on the boards of numerous organizations.
