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The Oxford Handbook of Hope
Author: Matthew W. Gallagher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 019939931X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHope has long been a topic of interest for psychologists, philosophers, educators, and physicians. In the past few decades, researchers from various disciplines and from around the world have studied how hope relates to superior academic performance, improved outcomes in the workplace, and improved psychological and physical health in individuals of all ages. Edited by Matthew W. Gallagher and the late Shane J. Lopez, The Oxford Handbook of Hope provides readers with a thorough and comprehensive update on the past 25 years of hope research while simultaneously providing an outline of what leading hope researchers believe the future of this line of research to be. In this extraordinary volume, Gallagher, Lopez, and their expert team of contributors discuss such topics as how best to define hope, how hope is distinguished from related philosophical and psychological constructs, what the current best practices are for measuring and quantifying hope, interventions and strategies for promoting hope across a variety of settings, the impact it has on physical and mental health, and the ways in which hope promotes positive functioning. Throughout its pages, these experts review what is currently known about hope and identify the topics and questions that will help guide the next decade of research ahead.
Handbook of Stress, Coping, and Health
Author: Virginia Hill Rice, Ph.D., RN
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 1483341801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique and comprehensive handbook examines the various models of stress, coping, and health and their relevance for nursing and related health fields. Building on the first edition that has been highly-praised for its analysis and critique of existing models and its discussion of new research surrounding self-regulation and stress, this Second Edition continues to provide a critical analysis of the field while providing up to date cutting-edge research. Under the expert editorship of Dr. Virginia Hill Rice, experienced scholars and practitioners present a broad range of issues and research that relate to stress and health, such as response-oriented stress; stimulus-oriented stress; and transactional stress, coping, and health in children, adolescents, attitudes, and much, much more.
Handbook of Depression in Adolescents
Author: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-11-18
Total Pages: 835
ISBN-13: 113667585X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDepressive disorders are among the most common types of psychopathology in the United States. Adolescent-onset depressive disorders represent particularly insidious conditions because of their strong association with chronic and recurrent emotional problems in adulthood. This handbook offers authoritative reviews of research on the nature, ca
Social Support and Physical Health
Author: Bert N. Uchino
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0300127987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth's environment are not succeeding. Still, he says, the challenges are not insurmountable. He offers comprehensive, viable new strategies for dealing with environmental threats around the world. The author explains why current approaches to critical global environmental problems - climate change, biodiversity loss, deterioration of marine environments, deforestation, water shortages, and others - don't work. He offers intriguing insights into why we have been able to address domestic environmental threats with some success while largely failing at the international level. Setting forth eight specific steps to a sustainable future, Speth convincingly argues that dramatically different government and citizen action are now urgent. If ever a book could be described as essential, this is it.
Social Support: Theory, Research and Applications
Author: I.G. Sarason
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9400951159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor." Traditional Danish Proverb This bit of Danish folk wisdom expresses an idea underlying much of the current thinking about social support. While the clinical literature has for a long time recognized the deleterious effects of unwholesome social relationships, only more recently has the focus broadened to include the positive side of social interaction, those interpersonal ties that are desired, rewarding, and protective. This book contains theoretical and research contributions by a group of scholars who are charting this side of the social spectrum. Evidence is increasing that maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving occur disproportionately among people with few social supports. Rather than sapping self-reliance, strong ties with others particularly family members seem to encourage it. Reliance on others and self-reliance are not only compatible but complementary to one another. While the mechanism by which an intimate relationship is protective has yet to be worked out, the following factors seem to be involved: intimacy, social integration through shared concerns, reassurance of worth, the opportunity to be nurtured by others, a sense of reliable alliance, and guidance. The major advance that is taking place in the literature on social support is that reliance is being -placed less on anecdotal and clinical evidence and more on empirical inquiry. The chapters of this book reflect this important development and identify the frontiers that are currently being explored.
Life Events as Stressors in Childhood and Adolescence
Author: James H. Johnson
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1986-12
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbstract: This book addresses the effects of stressful life events on the lives of children and adolescents. The first section is an introduction to stress and stressful life events. The next section examines research methods used to measure stressors in children and adolescents. Chapters three and four explore the physical. The next chapter discusses conceptual and methodological issues which need to be considered when researching the area of life stress. The final chapter summarizes intervention strategies for modifying the effects of life stress and areas for future research.
Adolescence Mental Health in School and University
Author: Iman Permana
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2024-07-29
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 2832552374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA school, whether run by the government or a private institution, is established to prepare adolescents for adulthood. In some regions, some religious societies have established a comprehensive educational institution supported by their religious competencies requirement in their curriculum, along with the national curriculum. Adolescence is a period of life that ranges from 10 to 19 years old and expands from school to the early phase of university. Adolescents are considered highly susceptible to mental health issues. Anxiety, depression, behavioral disorders, and suicidal attempts have been shown to increase before the age of 24. There is a myriad of factors that can contribute to the development of mental health disorders in this context, including family, parenting style, and bullying from peers/teachers. Failing to address contributing factors may hinder adolescents from fulfilling and sustaining healthy and productive adult lives.
Oxford Textbook of the Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability
Author: Sabayasachi Bhaumik
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-02-05
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0192513451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntellectual Disability (ID) describes a lifelong condition of heterogeneous aetiology, associated with the impairment of intellectual functioning (IQ
Positive Youth Development, Mental Health, and Psychological Well-Being in Diverse Youth
Author: Nora Wiium
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2023-06-15
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 2832527876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this Research Topic, our aim is to examine how personal resources related to competencies, skills, and self-perception as well as environmental, contextual, and relational features of the social contexts of diverse youth, directly or indirectly are important to mental health and psychological well-being. As previous research on young people has mainly focused on youth’s weaknesses rather than their strengths, our use of Positive Youth Development (PYD) in working with culturally diverse youth and their well-being in this Research Topic is novel. We invite contributions from researchers that were initially presented their papers in a meeting that was held by research partners of the Cross-National Project on Positive Youth Development (CN-PYD), and who represent an international and multidisciplinary panel of experts on PYD. The CN-PYD was initiated in 2014 at the University of Bergen and has an ongoing data collection that involves approximately 10,000 minority and majority youth and emerging adults (ages 16 to 29) living in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and South America. CN-PYD uses a strengths-based approach to the conceptualization of youth as resources and agentic, which is in opposition to the view of the developmental period of adolescence as being a period inherently fraught with problems and risks. The goal of the cross-national project is to assess personal strengths and contextual resources, considering how these resources come together to facilitate youth thriving and to document how young people make positive and valued contributions to themselves and others. We also advance research on the complex interplay between personal and contextual resources and their connections with risk behaviors and problems, in essence, taking a perspective of the whole child, both in terms of strengths and problems.
