Resilient Adults: Overcoming a Cruel Past

Offering an approach that focuses on the origins of mental health rather than the beginnings of mental illness, this book outlines how men and women can recognize the resilient traits they possess and foster the strength to overcome tragedy.

Spis treści:
1. The Challenge of Resilience.
2. Two Portraits: Shibvon and Dan.
3. The Locus of Hope: A Developmental Approach to Early Love.
4. The Later Loci of Hope: Adolescent "Adoptive′′ Relationships as Developmental Opportunities.
5. Faith and Vision.
6. Social and Political Activism: Healing Pathways.
7. "Struggling Well′′: The Sea Beyond the Sirens.
8. Recommendations from the Resilient.

Nota biograficzna:
GINA O′CONNELL HIGGINS is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Salem, Massachussets. She is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a staff psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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Offering an approach that focuses on the origins of mental health rather than the beginnings of mental illness, this book outlines how men and women can recognize the resilient traits they possess and foster the strength to overcome tragedy.