Ebook: Handbook of Resilience in Children

Today’s children face a multitude of pressures, from the everyday challenges of life to the increasing threats of poverty, exploitation, and trauma. Central to growing up successfully is learning to deal with stress, endure hardships, and thrive despite adversity. Resilience – the ability to cope with and overcome life’s difficulties – is a quality that can potentially be nurtured in all young people.

The second edition of the Handbook of Resilience in Children updates and expands on its original focus of resilience in children who overcome adversity to include its development in those not considered at risk, leading to better outcomes for all children across the lifespan. Expert contributors examine resilience in relation to environmental stressors, as a phenomenon in child and adolescent disorders, and as a means toward positive adaptation into adulthood. New and revised chapters explore strategies for developing resilience in the family, the therapist’s office, and the school as well as its nurturance in caregivers and teachers.

Topics addressed include:

Resilience in maltreated children and adults.

Resilience and self-control impairment.

Relational resilience in young and adolescent girls.

Asset-building as an essential component of treatment.

Assessment of social and emotional competencies related to resilience.

Building resilience through school bullying prevention programs.

Large-scale longitudinal studies on resilience.

The second edition of the Handbook of Resilience in Children is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians, allied practitioners and professionals, and graduate students in school and clinical psychology, education, pediatrics, psychiatry, social work, school counseling, and public health.

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Today’s children face a multitude of pressures, from the everyday challenges of life to the increasing threats of poverty, exploitation, and trauma. Central to growing up successfully is learning to deal with stress, endure hardships, and thrive despite adversity. Resilience – the ability to cope with and overcome life’s difficulties – is a quality that can potentially be nurtured in all young people.

The second edition of the Handbook of Resilience in Children updates and expands on its original focus of resilience in children who overcome adversity to include its development in those not considered at risk, leading to better outcomes for all children across the lifespan. Expert contributors examine resilience in relation to environmental stressors, as a phenomenon in child and adolescent disorders, and as a means toward positive adaptation into adulthood. New and revised chapters explore strategies for developing resilience in the family, the therapist’s office, and the school as well as its nurturance in caregivers and teachers.

Topics addressed include:

• Resilience in maltreated children and adults.
• Resilience and self-control impairment.
• Relational resilience in young and adolescent girls.
• Asset-building as an essential component of treatment.
• Assessment of social and emotional competencies related to resilience.
• Building resilience through school bullying prevention programs.
• Large-scale longitudinal studies on resilience.

The second edition of the Handbook of Resilience in Children is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians, allied practitioners and professionals, and graduate students in school and clinical psychology, education, pediatrics, psychiatry, social work, school counseling, and public health.

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Today’s children face a multitude of pressures, from the everyday challenges of life to the increasing threats of poverty, exploitation, and trauma. Central to growing up successfully is learning to deal with stress, endure hardships, and thrive despite adversity. Resilience – the ability to cope with and overcome life’s difficulties – is a quality that can potentially be nurtured in all young people.

The second edition of the Handbook of Resilience in Children updates and expands on its original focus of resilience in children who overcome adversity to include its development in those not considered at risk, leading to better outcomes for all children across the lifespan. Expert contributors examine resilience in relation to environmental stressors, as a phenomenon in child and adolescent disorders, and as a means toward positive adaptation into adulthood. New and revised chapters explore strategies for developing resilience in the family, the therapist’s office, and the school as well as its nurturance in caregivers and teachers.

Topics addressed include:

• Resilience in maltreated children and adults.
• Resilience and self-control impairment.
• Relational resilience in young and adolescent girls.
• Asset-building as an essential component of treatment.
• Assessment of social and emotional competencies related to resilience.
• Building resilience through school bullying prevention programs.
• Large-scale longitudinal studies on resilience.

The second edition of the Handbook of Resilience in Children is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians, allied practitioners and professionals, and graduate students in school and clinical psychology, education, pediatrics, psychiatry, social work, school counseling, and public health.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Why Study Resilience?....Pages 3-14
Resilience Processes in Development: Four Waves of Research on Positive Adaptation in the Context of Adversity....Pages 15-37
Reconceputalizing Resilience....Pages 39-55
Resilience in Gene–Environment Transactions....Pages 57-72
Relational Resilience in Girls....Pages 73-86
What Can We Learn about Resilience from Large-Scale Longitudinal Studies?....Pages 87-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Poverty in Childhood and Adolescence: A Transactional–Ecological Approach to Understanding and Enhancing Resilience in Contexts of Disadvantage and Developmental Risk....Pages 105-126
Family Violence and Parent Psychopathology: Implications for Children’s Socioemotional Development and Resilience....Pages 127-141
Understanding and Promoting the Development of Resilience in Families....Pages 143-160
Resiliency in Maltreated Children....Pages 161-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Resilience and the Disruptive Disorders of Childhood....Pages 183-200
From Helplessness to Optimism: The Role of Resilience in Treating and Preventing Depression in Youth....Pages 201-214
Resilience and Self-Control Impairment....Pages 215-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Measuring Resilience in Children: From Theory to Practice....Pages 241-259
Assessment of Social-Emotional Competencies Related to Resilience....Pages 261-272
The Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents: Constructs, Research and Clinical Application....Pages 273-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Resilience and Positive Youth Development: A Relational Developmental Systems Model....Pages 293-308
A Resilience Framework for Treating Severe Child Trauma....Pages 309-327
Resilience and the Child with Learning Disabilities....Pages 329-348
Promoting Educational Equity in Disadvantaged Youth: The Role of Resilience and Social-Emotional Learning....Pages 349-370
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Resilience Through Violence and Bullying Prevention in Schools....Pages 371-386
Caring for the Caregiver: Promoting the Resilience of Teachers....Pages 387-397
Enhancing Resilience in Classrooms....Pages 399-409
Creating a Positive School Climate: A Foundation for Resilience....Pages 411-423
Front Matter....Pages 425-425
Positive Adaptation, Resilience and the Developmental Assets Framework....Pages 427-442
The Power of Parenting....Pages 443-458
Building Resilience in All Children: A Public Health Approach....Pages 459-480
Enhancing the Process of Resilience Through Effective Thinking....Pages 481-503
Front Matter....Pages 505-505
The Future of Children Today....Pages 507-510
Resiliency in Maltreated Children....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 511-527