Handbook of Resilience in Children (Hardcover)

Part I: Overview.- Why Study Resilience?.- Resilience Processes in Development.- Understanding the Concept of Resilience.- Resilience in Gene-Environment Transactions.- Sustaining and Reframing Vulnerability and Connection.- Relational Resilience in Girls.- What Can we Learn about Resilience from Large-Scale Longitudinal Studies.- Measuring Resilience in Children.- Part II: Environmental Issues.- Poverty in Childhood amd Adolscence.- Family Violence and Parent Psycholpathology.- Families as Contexts for Children's Adaptation.- Resiliency in Maltreated Children.- Part III: Resilience as a Phenomenon in Childhood Disorders.- Resilience and the Disruptive Disorders of Childhood.- From Helplessness to Optimism.- Resilience and the Child with Learning Disabilities.- Resilience and Self-Control Impairment.- Part IV: Shaping the Future of Children.- Positive Adaptation, Resilience, and the Developmnt Asset Framework.- The Power of Parenting.- Building Educational Oppurtunity.- Building Resilience in All Children.- Resilience through Violence Prevention in Schools.- Enhancing the Process of Resilience through Effective Thinking.- Part V: Conclusions.- The Future of Children Today.