Overview
- Examines resilience and well-being in children, whether in the face of everyday difficulties or exceptional adversities
- Focuses on childhood well-being throughout different developmental periods
- Explores the effects of positive relationships established between children and parents and siblings, teachers and peers, and others outside of family and school
- Offers strategies for raising children to have grit and tenacity
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Child and Family Studies (SSCFS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Chronic illness and resilience in children
- Coping, children and resilience
- Early childhood and resilience
- Evidence-based interventions, resilience, children
- Families, resilience and children
- Grit, resilience and children
- Mental calisthenics and childhood resilience
- Mental health promotion in children
- Parents, resilience and children
- Peers and resilience
- Positive functioning in children
- Relationships, positivity, resilience in children
- Resilience during childhood
- Schools, teachers and resilience in children
- Siblings and resilience
- Socioeconomic challenges and resilience in children
- Tenacity, resilience and children
- Toxic stress, children and resilience
- Trauma, children and resilience
- Well-being, resilience and children
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Laura Nabors Ph.D., ABPP, is a Professor in the School of Human Services at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Nabors’s research interests center on improving the health and mental health of children through evidence-based interventions. Moreover, she has focused on research in community settings and applied contexts that showcases child and parent perceptions of ideas to improve child functioning. Her research has resulted in more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Nabors is an award-winning educator and professor, winning the 2015 Dolly Cohen Award for excellence in teaching at the University of Cincinnati, who values building positive skills in those she serves.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilient Children
Book Subtitle: Nurturing Positivity and Well-Being Across Development
Editors: Laura Nabors
Series Title: Springer Series on Child and Family Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81728-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81727-5Published: 09 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81730-5Published: 10 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81728-2Published: 08 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2570-0421
Series E-ISSN: 2570-043X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Child and School Psychology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Public Health, Clinical Psychology