ABSTRACT
How are people and communities able to prevail despite challenge? What helps them bounce back from adversity and even grow in knowledge and understanding? And can this resilience be taught? During the past decade, exciting scientific advances have shed light on how resilience operates from neurons to neighborhoods. In The Resilience Handbook, experts in the science of resilience draw on human and animal research to describe the process of resilience and follow its course as it unfolds both within individuals and in social networks. Contributors also highlight the promise of new interventions that apply what we know about resilience processes to bolster positive health, and raise some of the pressing questions and issues for the field as it matures.
This handbook is designed to be used by students as an invitation to a burgeoning field; by researchers, as a framework for advancing theories, hypotheses, and empirical tests of resilience functions; and by clinicians, as a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute integration of theory and practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|208 pages
Resilience as Adaptive Process to Stress and Trauma
part 1_a|52 pages
Resilience as Biobehavioral Adaptation
chapter 3|11 pages
Approach/Engagement and Withdrawal/Defense as Basic Biobehavioral Adaptations
part 1_B|60 pages
Resilience as Intrapersonal Process
chapter 6|13 pages
The Regulatory Power of Positive Emotions in Stress
part 1_C|70 pages
Resilience as Interpersonal Process
chapter 9|16 pages
Oxytocin and Attachment Facilitate a Shift From Seeking Novelty to Recognizing and Preferring Familiarity
part 1_D|26 pages
Resilience as Social Process
part 2_a|36 pages
Activating Interventions
chapter 16|16 pages
Behavioral Activation as a Treatment for Depression
chapter 17|18 pages
Resilience Training for Action and Agency to Stress and Trauma
part 2_B|38 pages
Intrapersonal Interventions
part 2_C|26 pages
Interpersonal Interventions