Beyond Coping - Meeting Goals, Visions, and Challenges

Informationen zum Autor Erica Frydenberg is currently Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Dr Frydenberg has previously held positions at the Prahran School Support Centre, working for the Minstry of Education and held various guidance officer positions within the Department of Education. She has published widely in journals and been involved in eight different publications concerned with child and adolescent coping, as Author, Editor and contributor as well as designing course manuals She has been actively involved on course advisory committees, committees and groups for the Trust for Young Australians, and for the Australian Psychological Society and her primary field of interest is how young and adolescent people cope with stress. Klappentext The search for effective ways to combat depression has resulted in a significant shift in psychological approach to a more positive orientation that emphasizes health and well-being. This volume provides a synthesis of different but compatible theoretical models that have been developed in the field of stress and coping and provides a way forward beyond the traditional paradigms. Written to be accessible to students and researchers in social! educational! and health psychology! this will be a valuable and important addition to the field. Zusammenfassung Depression is being experienced in "epidemic" proportions in many western communities, and in particular amongst the young. This is a professional book that brings together the theoretical ideas and research findings of leading contributors on stress and coping.

Product details

• Authors: Erica Frydenberg, Stephen Mann
• Assisted by: Erica Frydenberg (Editor), Wolfang Prinz (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2002
• EAN: 9780198508144
• ISBN: 978-0-19-850814-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Psychology; Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, SELF-HELP / Self-Management / Stress Management, coping with stress, Educational psychology, Clinical psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Coping with / advice about stress