The Resilience Handbook Approaches to Stress and Trauma [Paperback]

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.

Part I: Resilience as Adaptive Process to Stress and Trauma 1. Seeking and Loss in the Ancestral Genesis of Resilience, Depression, and Addiction Jaak Panksepp 2. The Role of Predictive and Reactive Biobehavioral Programs in Resilience Mattie Tops, Phan Luu, Maarten A. S. Boksem, and Don M. Tucker3. Approach/Engagement and Withdrawal/Defense as Basic Biobehavioral Adaptations: Resilient Transcendence of a Popular Duality Martha Kent4. Introduction to Allostasis and Allostatic Load Greta B. Raglan and Jay Schulkin 5. The Automatic Basis of Resilience: Adaptive Regulation of Affect and Cognition Susanne Schwager and Klaus Rothermund 6. The Regulatory Power of Positive Emotion in Stress: A Temporal-Functional Approach Christian E. Waugh 7. Responding to Trauma and Loss: An Emotion Regulation Perspectil3