Coping and the Challenge of Resilience

• Main Author: Frydenberg, Erica (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social groups.; Well-being.; Children.; Clinical psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Positive psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Positive Psychology.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Child Well-being.

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, t...

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.