Building Resilience

Building Resilience

Author: Daniel P. Aldrich

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-08-15

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0226012891

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The factor that makes some communities rebound quickly from disasters while others fall apart: “A fascinating book on an important topic.”—E.L. Hirsch, in Choice Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren’t explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid provided by national governments or the international community. The difference between resilience and disrepair, as Daniel P. Aldrich shows, lies in the depth of communities’ social capital. Building Resilience highlights the critical role of social capital in the ability of a community to withstand disaster and rebuild both the infrastructure and the ties that are at the foundation of any community. Aldrich examines the post-disaster responses of four distinct communities—Tokyo following the 1923 earthquake, Kobe after the 1995 earthquake, Tamil Nadu after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina—and finds that those with robust social networks were better able to coordinate recovery. In addition to quickly disseminating information and financial and physical assistance, communities with an abundance of social capital were able to minimize the migration of people and valuable resources out of the area. With governments increasingly overstretched and natural disasters likely to increase in frequency and intensity, a thorough understanding of what contributes to efficient reconstruction is more important than ever. Building Resilience underscores a critical component of an effective response.


Staying Sober

Staying Sober

Author: Terence T. Gorski

Publisher: Herald Publishing House

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 9780830904594

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Fostering Resilience for the Family in Recovery

Fostering Resilience for the Family in Recovery

Author: K. J. FOSTER

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-26

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13:

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Fostering Resilience for the Family in Recovery: A Guide to Helping You and Your Loved One Get Out of the Swamp of Substance Abuse and Addiction. This book is a guide to help family members navigate successful recovery from substance abuse, addiction and codependency issues. Learn how you can best support your loved one to achieve a successful recovery. Substance abuse and drug dependency impact the mental health of the entire family. If you don't know what to do to help your loved one or you're feeling anxious, angry, scared, or overwhelmed, you are not alone, and you and your family can recover. In this family recovery book, Dr. KJ Foster teaches family members and other loved ones how to stop the vicious cycle and get out of the swamp of addiction, and ot only how to get out of the swamp, but how to stay out. Dr. Foster shares both personal and professional experiences of successful recovery, and a formula for recovery that can enable you and your family to become stronger, healthier, and more resilient. It may not seem possible to you right now. You may even despair that you, your loved one and your family may never recover. Yet, it is possible! There's hope for full recovery and it's possible for you and your family to become better and stronger than you ever were before the substance abuse.Dr. Foster shares key elements for a successful recovery, and information that is essential for family members who are seeking knowledge on how to best support their loved one. Everyone in the family is impacted by the substance abuse and everyone in the family is in need of their own education, support and recovery.This book provides it all, along with a personal plan of action that you can start to implement today.Recovery Changes Everything!"Dr. KJ Foster's book will blow you away. Fostering Resilience for the Family in Recovery is a game changing, life changing amazing resource tool for families whose loved ones are struggling and in the throes of addiction. I couldn't put the book down. It was like a waterfall of invaluable information kept coming over me wave after wave, page after page, chapter after chapter. So many amazing resources and tools for families. Dr. Foster's words and wisdom come from her own riveting and heartbreaking personal experiences with her own addiction and trauma and those of her family. This is not meant to be a feel-good book, but is a breakthrough book that is extremely effective and will literally change the course of people's lives for the better. Dr. Foster gives you a no-nonsense, first-hand view of what works realistically, practically, therapeutically, and clinically. The highest compliment I can pay Dr. Foster's book is it is truth. It may be hard truth, it may be some truth that we don't want to hear, but it is absolutely truth that we need for the benefit of our addicted loved ones and most importantly the benefit of ourselves and our families future happiness and success. Dr. Foster doesn't just tell you what the issues and problems are, she shows you how to resolve them and fix them! If you want to get out of the "treacherous swamp" of addiction, read this book. It is a life changing book and has my highest recommendation and endorsement." Jack Alan Levine - Addiction Expert, Speaker, Author of "My Addict Your Addict" and "Addiction and Recovery Handbook."


Growing Up Resilient

Growing Up Resilient

Author: Tatyana Barankin

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 9780888685049

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Resilience is a much-talked-about topic these days. The view that resilience is an important aspect of mental well-being has been gaining attention among health professionals and researchers. Tatyana Barankin and Nazilla Khanlou draw from the latest research and theoretical developments on resilience in children and youth and present it in a way that is relevant for a diverse audience, including parents, educators, health care providers, daycare workers, coaches, social service providers, policy makers and others. Among the unique contributions of this book is that the authors consider the development of resilience at three levels. Growing Up Resilient explores the individual, family and environmental risk and protective factors that affect young people's resilience: individual factors: temperament, learning strengths, feelings and emotions, self-concept, ways of thinking, adaptive skills, social skills and physical health family factors: attachment, communication, family structure, parent relations, parenting style, sibling relations, parents' health and support outside the family environmental factors: inclusion (gender, culture), social conditions (socio-economic situation, media influences), access (education, health) and involvement. Tips on how to build resilience in children and youth follow each section. The ability for children and youth to bounce back from today's stresses is one of the best life skills they can develop. Growing Up Resilient is a must-read for adults who want to increase resilience in the children and youth in their lives.


Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters

Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2015-09-10

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 0309316227

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In the devastation that follows a major disaster, there is a need for multiple sectors to unite and devote new resources to support the rebuilding of infrastructure, the provision of health and social services, the restoration of care delivery systems, and other critical recovery needs. In some cases, billions of dollars from public, private and charitable sources are invested to help communities recover. National rhetoric often characterizes these efforts as a "return to normal." But for many American communities, pre-disaster conditions are far from optimal. Large segments of the U.S. population suffer from preventable health problems, experience inequitable access to services, and rely on overburdened health systems. A return to pre-event conditions in such cases may be short-sighted given the high costs - both economic and social - of poor health. Instead, it is important to understand that the disaster recovery process offers a series of unique and valuable opportunities to improve on the status quo. Capitalizing on these opportunities can advance the long-term health, resilience, and sustainability of communities - thereby better preparing them for future challenges. Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters identifies and recommends recovery practices and novel programs most likely to impact overall community public health and contribute to resiliency for future incidents. This book makes the case that disaster recovery should be guided by a healthy community vision, where health considerations are integrated into all aspects of recovery planning before and after a disaster, and funding streams are leveraged in a coordinated manner and applied to health improvement priorities in order to meet human recovery needs and create healthy built and natural environments. The conceptual framework presented in Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters lays the groundwork to achieve this goal and provides operational guidance for multiple sectors involved in community planning and disaster recovery. Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters calls for actions at multiple levels to facilitate recovery strategies that optimize community health. With a shared healthy community vision, strategic planning that prioritizes health, and coordinated implementation, disaster recovery can result in a communities that are healthier, more livable places for current and future generations to grow and thrive - communities that are better prepared for future adversities.


Treating Traumatized Children

Treating Traumatized Children

Author: Danny Brom

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-10-06

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1134092156

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While recent years have seen a vast increase in the literature on adult trauma, interest in childhood trauma has only recently started to gain momentum, encouraging new research and evidence-based interventions. Here the editors have brought together an international list of contributors to look at both innovative and established treatments of trauma in a range of contexts, and provide up-to-date coverage of what is on offer in prevention, assessment, treatment and research. Divided into three parts, main topics discussed are: risk and protective factors for the development of post-traumatic disorders conceptualizations of resilience and suggestions for making them operational evidence-based treatment models for traumatized children Treating Traumatized Children provides professionals with an up-to-date international perspective on the subject, as well as helping professionals and researchers develop future treatments based on current evidence.


Spirituality and Religion in Counseling

Spirituality and Religion in Counseling

Author: Carman S. Gill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-14

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1351811495

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Spirituality and Religion in Counseling: Competency-Based Strategies for Ethical Practice provides mental health professionals and counselors in training with practical information for understanding and responding to clients’ needs using a spiritual and religious framework. This work conceptualizes spiritual and faith development in a holistic way, using case examples and practical interventions to consider common issues through a variety of approaches and frameworks. This is an essential compendium of actionable strategies and solutions for counselors looking to address clients’ complex spiritual and religious lives and foster meaningful faith development.


Option B

Option B

Author: Sheryl Sandberg

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2017-04-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1524732699

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy. Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, “Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B. We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.