A Symposium contains a presentation and discussion by 3-4 experts on a particular topic. A discussant integrates and summarizes the papers, develops implications for policy and practice from the research, and facilitates audience discussion.

Papers listed below are included in this session.

Discussant and Chair: Kate Fogarty
Moderator: Victor Harris

Summary
Regardless of roles taken by adolescents in violence (perpetrator, victim, witness), e.g. cyber- bullies and victims both experience relationship difficulties (Campbell et al., 2013), practitioners have cause for concern. This presentation utilizes a resilience approach (Masten’s [2014] second chapter of Ordinary Magic on models of resilience with variable- and person-centered approaches) to highlight four research papers dedicated to illuminating processes within families, in context of communities (peers, schools, youth programs), and their capacity to buffer negative outcomes associated with adolescents' exposure to violence. Here we intend to disseminate findings that inform family practitioners on ways to help adolescents, who have been involved in violence, to thrive. These papers utilize diverse types and levels of analysis, from moderation and mediation models, to dyadic analysis and latent class analysis (LCA), all with the purpose of providing insight into familial processes’ protective functions in the face of adolescents' violence exposure or enactment.

Objectives

• To examine the influence of familial and social/community protective factors (moderating or mediating) and promotive factors (direct effects) for adolescent resilience to the experience of violence.
• To analyze probable explanations for results finding support (and lack of support) for moderating and mediating effects and other protective mechanisms specific to the family and social lives of vulnerable adolescents, as such influence adaptive or maladaptive outcomes.
• To evaluate research findings on resilience of vulnerable youth populations (i.e., ethnic/racial minority, ADHD diagnosis, adverse childhood experiences [ACEs], cyberbullying or intimate partner violence victimization experiences) and provide implications for practice and prevention with families.

Subject Codes: protective factors, parent-child relationships, violence
Population Codes: adolescence, biological parent, Nationally representative
Method and Approach Codes: dyadic analysis, latent variable modeling, mediation/indirect effects models