| Description |
336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Why Children Need Optimism. 1. The Promissory Note. 2. From the First Step to the First Date. 3. Building the Team -- Pt. 2. Where Boomer Child Rearing Went Wrong. 4. The Self-Esteem Movement. 5. The Epidemic of Depression -- Pt. 3. Is Your Child an Optimist or a Pessimist? 6. The Fundamentals of Optimism. 7. Measuring Optimism. 8. Where Optimism Comes From -- Pt. 4. How to Raise Children to Optimism and Mastery. 9. The Penn Prevention Program. 10. Changing Your Child's Automatic Pessimism. 11. Changing Your Child's Explanatory Style. 12. Disputing and Decatastrophizing. 13. Boosting Your Child's Social Skills -- Pt. 5. The Children of the Twenty-first Century. 14. The Pyramid of Optimism: Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers. 15. The Limits of Optimism |
| Summary |
The Optimistic Child offers parents and teachers the tools developed in this study to teach children of all ages life skills that transform helplessness into mastery and bolster genuine self-esteem. Learning the skills of optimism not only reduces the risk of depression but boosts school performance, improves physical health, and provides children with the self-reliance they need as they approach the teenage years and adulthood |
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Over the past thirty years, the self-esteem movement has promoted the credo in American homes and classrooms that unconditional positive feedback is what children need to make them feel better about themselves. But even though we are raising our children to feel good, the hard truth is that they have never been more depressed. In fact, depression strikes a quarter of all children today. To examine and reverse this trend, Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph. D., a leading psychologist who has been studying depression for three decades, developed a long-term research study with his colleagues called the Penn Depression Prevention Project. Their startling findings prove that teaching children to challenge their pessimistic thoughts can "immunize" them against depression |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and index |
| Subject |
Child rearing.
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Optimism in children.
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Depression in children -- Prevention.
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Optimism.
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Positive psychology.
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Resilience (Personality trait) in children.
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Child Rearing.
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Depression -- prevention & control.
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Psychology, Child.
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| Author |
Gillham, Jane.
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Jaycox, Lisa.
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Reivich, Karen.
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| LC no. |
95012619 |
| ISBN |
0091831199 |
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0395693802 |
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