Resilient Adults: Overcoming a Cruel Past

Author: Higgins, Gina O'Connell,Higgins, Chris
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Category: Child Abuse, Child & Developmental Psychology, Psychotherapy
Book Format: Paperback

 

Offering an approach that focuses on the origins of mental health rather than the beginnings of mental illness, this book outlines how men and women can recognize the resilient traits they possess and foster the strength to overcome tragedy.

An inspiring and invigorating book! I recommAnd it to the courageous women and men who struggle each day to overcome their own cruel pasts, to the therapists who work with them, and to anyone interested in the relationship between adult development and mental health.''--Robert Kegan, Harvard University and the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology
 

 

Table Of Contents

1. The Challenge of Resilience; 2. Two Portraits: Shibvon and Dan; 3. The Locus of Hope: A Developmental Approach to Early Love; 4. The Later Loci of Hope: Adolescent "Adoptive" Relationships as Developmental Opportunities; 5. Faith and Vision; 6. Social and Political Activism: Healing Pathways; 7. "Struggling Well": The Sea Beyond the Sirens; 8. Recommendations from the Resilient.

About Gina O'Connell Higgins

GINA O'CONNELL HIGGINS is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Salem, Massachussets. She is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a staff psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

 

(BK-9780787902537)

SKU BK-9780787902537
Barcode # 9780787902537
Brand Jossey-Bass
Artist / Author Higgins, Gina O'Connell, Higgins, Chris
Shipping Weight 0.6000kg
Shipping Width 0.150m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.230m
Assembled Length 23.000m
Assembled Height 2.400m
Assembled Width 15.300m
Type Paperback

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