Learning from Resilient People: Lessons We Can Apply to Counseling and Psychotherapy [Hardcover]

This comprehensive core textbook analyzes how resilient people navigate the troubled waters of life's traumas and identifies how learning about resilience may help cultivate this quality in other, less resilient, people. Author Morley D. Glicken explains the inner self-healing processes of resilient people and helps individuals training in the helping professions to learn to use these processes in working with their clients.This comprehensive core textbook analyzes how resilient people navigate the troubled waters of life's traumas and identifies how learning about resilience may help cultivate this quality in other, less resilient, people. Author Morley D. Glicken explains the inner self-healing processes of resilient people and helps individuals training in the helping professions to learn to use these processes in working with their clients. The research presented in this book is comprehensive, and it is obvious that the author is very well versed in the area of positive psychology. A definite strength of this book, and one that I think instructors and students will find particularly helpful, are the several case studies presented throughout the test, usually at the end of each chapter. These compelling case studies illustrate the concepts the are discussed in each chapter in vivid and real-world fashion. Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM RESILIENT PEOPLE
Ch 1: Understanding Resilience
Definitions of Resilience
Attributes of Resilient People
Coping With Stress as an Additional Aspect of Resilience
Examples of Resilient Responses of Traumatized Adolescents
Summary
PART II: HOW RESILIENT PEOPLE USE CULTURE, SPIRITUALITY, AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE THEIR SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONING
Ch 2: Resilience and the Impact of Spiritual and Religious Beliefs on Health and Mental Health
The Impact of Spiritlso