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Resilience and Mental Health - Challenges Across the Lifespan

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Steven M. Southwick is Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA. Brett Litz is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. Dennis S. Charney is Dean and Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Matthew J. Friedman is Executive Director, National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, US Department of Veterans Affairs and Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA. Klappentext This book provides a comprehensive! multidisciplinary and integrated understanding of resilience that is written by leading experts in the field. "This volume is an important resource for all mental health clinicians and others interested in trauma and resilience...especially useful for pragmatic clinical psychiatrists who spend little time with current academic psychology. After exposure to the thinking and clinical research included in this text, they should be able to use the material in psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic as well as psychopharmacologic approaches to their patients." - Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Zusammenfassung This book brings together experts from a broad array of scientific fields whose research has focused on adaptive responses to stress. It will be suitable for clinicians and researchers who are interested in resilience across the lifespan and in response to a wide variety of stressors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Pathways to Resilience: 1. Neurobiology of resilience Adriana Feder and Kate Collins; 2. Resilience in the face of stress: emotion regulation as a protective factor Allison S. Troy and Iris Mauss; 3. Cognitive factors and resilience: how self-efficacy contributes to coping with adversities Charles C. Benight and Roman Cieslak; 4. Personality factors in resilience to traumatic stress Mark Miller and Kelly M. Harrington; 5. Social ties and resilience in chronic disease Denise Janicki-Deverts and Sheldon Cohen; 6. Religious and spiritual factors in resilience Dave W. Foy, Kent D. Drescher and Patricia J. Watson; Part II. Resilience Across the Lifespan: 7. Resilience in children and adolescents Ann S. Masten, Amy R. Monn and Laura M. Supkoff; 8. Toward a lifespan approach to resilience and potential trauma George A. Bonanno and Anthony D. Mancini; 9. Resilience in older adults Diane L. Elmore, Lisa M. Brown and Joan M. Cook; Part III. Resilience in Families, Communities, and Societies: 10. Family resilience: a collaborate approach in response to stressful life challenges Froma Walsh; 11. Community resilience: concepts, assessment, and implications for intervention Fran H. Norris, Kathleen Sherrieb and Betty Pfefferbaum; 12. Trauma, culture and resiliency Carl C. Bell; Part IV. Specific Challenges: 13. Loss and grief: the role of individual differences Anthony D. Mancini and George Bonanno; 14. Reorienting resilience: adapting resilience for post-disaster research Jennifer Johnson and Sandro Galea; 15. Rape and other sexual assault Heidi S. Resnick, Constance Guille, Jenna L. McCauley and Dean G. Kilpatrick; 16. The stress continuum model: a military organizational approach to resilience and recovery William P. Nash, Maria Steenkamp, Lauren Conoscenti and Brett Litz; 17. Resilience in the face of terrorism: linking resource investment with engagement Stevan E. Hobfoll, Brian Hall, Katie J. Horsey and Brittain E. Lamoureux; 18. Resilience in the context of poverty John C. Buckner and Jessica S. Waters; 19. Resiliency in persons with serious mental illness Piper S. Meyer and Kim T. Mueser; Part V. Training for Resilience; 20. Interventions to enhance resilience and resilience-related constructs in adults Steven M. Southwick, Robert H. Pietrzak and ...

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Authors Southwick, Steven M. Southwick, Steven M. Litz Southwick
Assisted by Dennis Charney (Editor), Charney Dennis (Editor), Matthew J. Friedman (Editor), Friedman Matthew J. (Editor), Brett Litz (Editor), Brett T. Litz (Editor), Brett T. (Boston University) Litz (Editor), Litz Brett T. (Editor), Steven M. Southwick (Editor), Southwick Steven M. (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 18.08.2011
 
EAN 9780521898393
ISBN 978-0-521-89839-3
No. of pages 379
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

MEDICAL / Mental Health, Psychiatry, Clinical psychology

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