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Author: John W. Reich PhD Alex J. Zautra PhD John Stuart Hall PhD
ISBN : 146250647X
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What enables people to bounce back from stressful experiences? How do certain individuals maintain a sense of purpose and direction over the long term, even in the face of adversity? This is the first book to move beyond childhood and adolescence to explore resilience across the lifespan. Coverage ranges from genetic and physiological factors through personal, family, organizational, and community processes. Contributors examine how resilience contributes to health and well-being across the adult life cycle; why—and what happens when—resilience processes fail; ethnic and cultural dimensions of resilience; and ways to enhance adult resilience, including reviews of exemplary programs.
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- Paperback: 540 pages
- Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 Reprint edition (April 2, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 146250647X
- ISBN-13: 978-1462506477
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6.9 x 9.8 inches
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Free Handbook of Adult Resilience
Ever notice that some individuals seem to be able to push back healthfully against most of life's adversities, while others fold under far less pressure? Is this kind of reslience to stress a natural gift? Something that can be learned? If so, when and how early should such training begin?
The large size and scope of this Handbook of Adult Resilience is justified by its being a one-stop-shopping resource for both researchers and clinicians in the field of stress and stress management. The book begins by emphasizing that resilience is not just a quality that inheres in individual personalities, but that interacts with biological predispositions, ethnic and cultural factors, and relationships to the community. Early chapters discuss the biological foundations of resilience and its opposite - stress vulnerability - and then go on to consider cognitive, emotional, temperamental, and spiritual dimensions of resilience and their role in shaping personality and psychopathology in the context of ethnicity, culture, and community norms.
But does a person who is resilient at one age retain that quality over time? The book goes on to consider resilience across the lifespan, including the role of early childhood and later adult experiences, as well as the broader social environment in shaping resilience to different kinds of adversity. The emerging lesson seems to be that, like intelligence, resilience is not a static, monolithic characteristic. Just as some individuals can be more or less skilled and clever in math or reading or art, so there may be many different kinds of resilience that are applicable to a variety of challenges, and at different points across the lifespan.
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