Overview

This book addresses how best to meet everyday challenges. The author focuses on how to think and act differently about what we do as we face challenges, and how to assess each situation as one of challenge rather than threat or harm because we have the strategies to cope. Spanning eleven chapters, the book examines the best ways to provide the core skills for life, to children, adolescents and adults, and how that is best achieved through the contemporary theories of coping. Coping has traditionally been defined in terms of reaction; that is, how people respond after or during a stressful event. More recently, coping is being defined more broadly to include anticipatory, preventive and proactive coping. This book provides case studies of resilient adults in a range of settings, highlighting how coping resources have helped them to overcome adversity. Researchers, students of psychology and social work, practitioners and those interested in the self-help field will find this book invaluable.

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Author:   Erica Frydenberg
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   4.602kg
ISBN:  

9781137569233

ISBN 10:   1137569239
Pages:   255
Publication Date:   17 March 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Capturing the Resiliency Construct.- Chapter 2. Positive Psychology, Mindset, Grit, Hardiness and Emotional Intelligence and the Construct of Resilience: A Good Fit with Coping.- Chapter 3. The Utility of Coping when Considering Resilience.- Chapter 4. The Measurement of Coping.- Chapter 5. What We Know about Coping.- Chapter 6. Social Support, Proactivity and Related Approaches.- Chapter 7. Stress, Resilience and Ageing.- Chapter 8. Development of Coping in the Formative Years: Building Resilience.- Chapter 9. Building Resilience through Coping in the Early Years.- Chapter 10. Spiritual Approaches to Coping and Mindfulness.- Chapter 11. The Resilient Coper.

Reviews

“Coping and the Challenge of Resilience focuses on coping, coping theory, and practice with complementary constructs when appropriate connections may be made. … Coping and the Challenge of Resilience is a useful and readable compendium of coping research and application by Frydenberg. Potential readers would include clinical and school psychologists as well as students in these areas.” (Sandra Prince-Embury, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (24), June, 2017)

Coping and the Challenge of Resilience focuses on coping, coping theory, and practice with complementary constructs when appropriate connections may be made. ... Coping and the Challenge of Resilience is a useful and readable compendium of coping research and application by Frydenberg. Potential readers would include clinical and school psychologists as well as students in these areas. (Sandra Prince-Embury, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (24), June, 2017)

Author Information

Erica Frydenberg is an educational, clinical and organisational psychologist who has practiced extensively in the Australian educational setting. She is a Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor in psychology in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, AU, and Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. She has authored and co-authored over 120 academic journal articles and chapters in the field of coping, ranging from early years through to adolescence and adults. 

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