resilience (personality trait) in adolescence

Presents different strategies to promote zest, or liveliness, and discusses the positive outcomes that are possible.

Doctor Kenneth R. Ginsburg provides strategies and advice on building resilience in children and adolescence, discussing competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control.

"A guide to both conceptual and practical approaches to building resilience. In particular, it examines children's physical development as it relates to resilience, including topics such as active play, physical risk-taking, safety and injury, and so on. By providing an in-depth exploration of both the theoretical and practical sides of building resilience, this book will help educators use effective strategies throughout their practice to better support the children and families they serve"--.

Describes twenty issues teens face, such as addiction, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and eating disorders, and offers advice on helping them cope. Includes a CD-ROM.

Provides resources for librarians, teachers, school counselors, and parents for helping teens cope with such problems as depression, eating disorders, maltreatment, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and cliques, including outreach programs, fiction books, bulletin board ideas, projects, and activities.

First-person accounts of teenagers who overcame major life obstacles with insight, independence, relationships, initiative, creativity, humor, and morality.

Describes resilience in teens and the forty assets teens need to survive and thrive. Includes self-assessments for teens to rate their own resilience.