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Title Handbook of resilience in children / edited by Sam Goldstein and Robert B. Brooks
Published New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2005]
©2005

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Description xix, 416 pages ; 26 cm
Contents 1. Why study resilience? / Sam Goldstein and Robert B. Brooks -- 2. Resilience processes in development / Margaret O'Dougherty Wright and Ann S. Masten -- 3. Understanding the concept of resilience / Howard B. Kaplan -- 4. Resilience in gene-environment transactions / Kirby Deater-Deckard, Linda Ivy and Jessica Smith -- 5. Sustaining and reframing vulnerability and connection : creating genuine resilience in boys and young males / William S. Pollack -- 6. Relational resilience in girls / Judith V. Jordan -- 7. What can we learn about resilience from large-scale longitudinal studies? / Emmy E. Werner -- 8. Measuring resilience in children / Jack A. Naglieri and Paul A. LeBuffe -- 9. Poverty in childhood and adolescence / Robert D. Felner -- 10. Family violence and parent psychopathology / Sara R. Jaffee -- 11. Families as contexts for children's adaptation / Susan M. Sheridan, John W. Eagle and Shannon E. Dowd -- 12. Resiliency in maltreated children / Shadi Houshyar and Joan Kaufman -- 13. Resilience and the disruptive disorders of childhood / Sam Goldstein and Richard Rider -- 14. From helplessness to optimism / Karen Reivich, Jane E. Gillham, Tara M. Chaplin and Martin E. P. Seligman -- 15. Resilience and the child with learning disabilities / Nancy Mather and Nicole Ofiesh -- 16. Resilience and self-control impairment / Wai Chen and Eric Taylor -- 17. Positive adaptation, resilience, and the developmental asset framework / Arturo Sesma, Jr., Marc Mannes and Peter C. Scales -- 18. The power of parenting / Robert B. Brooks -- 19. Building educational opportunity / Maurice J. Elias, Sarah Parker and Jennifer L. Rosenblatt -- 20. Building resilience in all children / Emily B. Winslow, Irwin N. Sandler and Sharlene A. Wolchik -- 21. Resilience through violence prevention in schools / Jennifer Taub and Melissa Pearrow -- 22. Enhancing the process of resilience through effective thinking / Myrna B. Shure and Bonnie Aberson -- 23. The future of children today / Sam Goldstein and Robert B. Brooks
Summary "The Handbook addresses ways in which the hypothetical and theoretical concepts of resilience can be applied in practice. It provides clinicians, academics, and mental health professionals with the information needed to affect positive youth development."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available online
Subject Resilience (Personality trait) in children.
Adaptation, Psychological.
Adolescent.
Child.
Social Problems -- prevention & control.
Survival -- psychology.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung
Author Brooks, Robert B.
Goldstein, Sam, 1952-
LC no. 2004042176
ISBN 0306485710
Other Titles Resilience in children