Main description:

This book examines resilience in childhood, focusing on positive functioning and development, often in the face of everyday difficulties and adversities. It highlights critical areas in which children and their families can demonstrate resilience and attain positive social, emotional, academic, and behavioral life trajectories. The book describes key factors related to enhancing resilience for children, such as positive relationships with adults, positive school environments, and meaningful connections with others. It provides practical guidelines for promoting resilience in youth and reviews the critical nature of resilience across various situations, critical issues, and different developmental periods. It offers guidance on strategies for fostering resilience in children.

Key topics featured include:

Raising children to have grit and tenacity.
Fostering resilience in children at school and within their families.
Nurturing resilience in children with chronic illnesses and posttrauma.

Resilient Children is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental, clinical, and school psychology, family studies, public health, and social work as well as all related disciplines, including educational psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and pediatrics.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction to Resilience in Children.- Chapter 2. Resilience in Children and Families.- Chapter 3. Resilience for Children Recovering from Trauma.- Chapter 4. Grit and Resilience in Children.- Chapter 5. Discovering Resilience and Well-being in School Communities.- Chapter 6. Enhancing Coping for Children Facing Toxic Stress.- Chapter 7. Association Between Family Relationships and Childhood Resilience.- Chapter 8. Promotion of Resilience for Children in Low-Income Countries.- Chapter 9. Interventions to Promote Resilience in Children with Chronic Illnesses.- Chapter 10. Promoting Resilience in Early Childhood.- Chapter 11. Improving Executive Functioning Contributes to Cognitive Performance and Results in Resilience for Children.