Communicating Hope and Resilience Across the Lifespan (Hardcover, New edition)

From serious illness to natural disasters, humans turn to communication as a major source of strength to help us bounce back and to keep growing and thriving. Communicating Hope and Resilience Across the Lifespan addresses the various ways in which communication plays an important role in fostering hope and resilience. Adopting a lifespan approach and offering a new framework to expand our understanding of the concepts of "hope" and "resilience" from a communication perspective, contributors highlight the variety of "stressors" that people may encounter in their lives. They examine connections between the cognitive dimensions of hope such as self-worth, self-efficacy, and creative problem solving. They look at the variety of messages that can facilitate or inhibit experiencing hope in relationships, groups, and organizations. Other contributors look at how communication that can build strengths, enhance preparation, and model successful adaptation to change has the potential to lessen the negative impact of stress, demonstrating resilience. As an important counterpoint to recent work focusing on what goes wrong in interpersonal relationships, communication that has the potential to uplift and facilitate responses to stressful circumstances is emphasized throughout this volume. By offering a detailed examination of how to communicate hope and resilience, this book presents practical lessons for individuals, marriages, families, relationship experts, as well as a variety of other practitioners.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Lifespan Communication, 4
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	Gary A. Beck • Thomas Socha
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	286
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-2493-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > Journalistic style guides Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	1-4331-2493-9
Barcode:	9781433124938

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