This handbook gathers into one volume the current scientific theory, clinical guidelines, and real-world interventions that can help children overcome the everyday obstacles they face. It includes a wide range of perspectives addressing the role of resilience in helping children overcome these obstacles. The book provides guidance on how to measure and evaluate resilience in clinical practice, and it emphasizes the importance of resilience – positive psychology – rather than pathologies. In addition, the book features contributions from leading experts from a variety of fields, such as psychology, education, and social work.

Product Description: - Part of the Seven Steps Family Guides series, which includes Seven Steps to Homework Success (188964122X)

Product Description: TOP CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS OFFER EXPERT INSIGHT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR RAISING STRONG KIDS IN TODAY'S COMPLICATED WORLD In their critically acclaimed parenting bestseller, Raising Resilient Children, Drs. Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein introduced readers to their breakthrough parenting model for raising resilient, emotionally healthy children capable of confronting life's challenges and bouncing back from setbacks...read more

When Joey's friend Lisa tells him how babies are born, he asks his mother and father to tell him how he was really born.

Product Description: With an engaging anecdotal style, Dr. Brooks presents a framework and strategies for nurturing self-esteem in students. Learn how to integrate self-esteem with all areas of the curriculum.