Resilience and Mental Health: Challenges Across the Lifespan

by Edited by Steven M. Southwick , Brett T. Litz , Dennis Charney , Matthew J. Friedman

• ISBN13: 9780521898393
• ISBN10: 0521898390
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Humans are remarkably resilient in the face of crises, traumas, disabilities, attachment losses and ongoing adversities. To date, most research in the field of traumatic stress has focused on neurobiological, psychological and social factors associated with trauma-related psychopathology and deficits in psychosocial functioning. Far less is known about resilience to stress and healthy adaptation to stress and trauma. This book brings together experts from a broad array of scientific fields whose research has focused on adaptive responses to stress. Each of the five sections in the book examines the relevant concepts, spanning from factors that contribute to and promote resilience, to populations and societal systems in which resilience is employed, to specific applications and contexts of resilience and interventions designed to better enhance resilience. This will be suitable for clinicians and researchers who are interested in resilience across the lifespan and in response to a wide variety of stressors.

Table of Contents

Preface

Pathways to Resilience

Neurobiology of resilience

Resilience in the face of stress: emotion regulation as a protective factor

Cognitive factors and resilience: how self-efficacy contributes to coping with adversities

Personality factors in resilience to traumatic stress

Social ties and resilience in chronic disease

Religious and spiritual factors in resilience

Resilience Across the Lifespan

Resilience in children and adolescents

Toward a lifespan approach to resilience and potential trauma

Resilience in older adults

Resilience in Families, Communities, and Societies

Family resilience: a collaborate approach in response to stressful life challenges

Community resilience: concepts, assessment, and implications for intervention

Trauma, culture and resiliency

Specific Challenges

Loss and grief: the role of individual differences

Reorienting resilience: adapting resilience for post-disaster research

Rape and other sexual assault

The stress continuum model: a military organizational approach to resilience and recovery

Resilience in the face of terrorism: linking resource investment with engagement

Resilience in the context of poverty

Resiliency in persons with serious mental illness

Training for Resilience

Interventions to enhance resilience and resilience-related constructs in adults

Childhood resilience: adaptation, mastery and attachment

Military mental health training: building resilience

Public health practice and disaster resilience: a framework integrating resilience as a worker protection strategy

Index

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