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This volume derived from original presentations given at a
conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center
for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners, public health
professionals, and principals in the child development community
convened to address a science-based framework for elements of
well-being and how the elements might be developed across the life
course. Integrating physical, cognitive, and social-emotional
domains, Well-Being is the first scientific book to consider
well-being holistically. Focusing on a set of core strengths
grouped within these three domains, the book also includes a fourth
section on developmental strengths through adulthood that broadly
examines a continuum of health and development, as well as
transitions in well-being. This volume takes a developmental
perspective across the life course, describing foundational
strengths for well-being--the capacities that can be actively
developed, supported, or learned. These foundational
strengths--problem solving, emotional regulation, and physical
safety--are the positive underpinnings of early child health and
development, as well as ongoing well-being across the life course.
Working together and blending their respective disciplinary
perspectives and expertise, 53 experts in psychology, sociology,
child development, and medicine have contributed to the book.
This special issue is devoted to the topic of "risk and resilience"
in human development, a topic that epitomizes the complexity of
human development as a process of constancy and change throughout
life. The three empirical papers in this issue represent strong
contributions to the growing corpus of research on risk and
resilience in human development. The first one focuses on the
uniquely vulnerable population of urban ethnic minority adolescent
males. The second paper focuses on the risk and resilience from
trauma in a sample of mostly Caucasian individuals from rural Iowa,
who were at the last assessment, in the midst of transition into
young adulthood. It measures an array of mental disorders outcomes
and reveals the theoretical importance of timing of the risk
factor. The last paper is a study begun in 1978 of a cohort of
individuals with serious adolescent-onset mental disorder. It
compares these individuals against the risk and resilience profiles
of a matched sample without serious adolescent-onset psychiatric
disorder. In sum this issue adds to the corpus of the frontiers of
resilience research.
This special issue is devoted to the topic of "risk and resilience"
in human development, a topic that epitomizes the complexity of
human development as a process of constancy and change throughout
life. The three empirical papers in this issue represent strong
contributions to the growing corpus of research on risk and
resilience in human development. The first one focuses on the
uniquely vulnerable population of urban ethnic minority adolescent
males. The second paper focuses on the risk and resilience from
trauma in a sample of mostly Caucasian individuals from rural Iowa,
who were at the last assessment, in the midst of transition into
young adulthood. It measures an array of mental disorders outcomes
and reveals the theoretical importance of timing of the risk
factor. The last paper is a study begun in 1978 of a cohort of
individuals with serious adolescent-onset mental disorder. It
compares these individuals against the risk and resilience profiles
of a matched sample without serious adolescent-onset psychiatric
disorder. In sum this issue adds to the corpus of the frontiers of
resilience research.
A typically pessimistic view of aging is that it leads to a steady
decline in physical and mental abilities. In this volume leading
gerontologists and geriatric researchers explore the immense
potential of older adults to overcome the challenges of old age and
pursue active lives with renewed vitality. The contributors believe
that resilience capacities diminishing with old age is a
misconception and argue that individuals may successfully
capitalize on their existing resources, skills and cognitive
processes in order to achieve new learning, continuing growth, and
enhanced life-satisfaction. By identifying useful psychological
resources such as social connectedness, personal engagement and
commitment, openness to new experiences, social support and
sustained cognitive activity, the authors present a balanced
picture of resilient aging. Older adults, while coping with
adversity and losses, can be helped to maintain a complementary
focus on psychological strengths, positive emotions, and
regenerative capacities to achieve continued growth and healthy
longevity.
A typically pessimistic view of aging is that it leads to a steady
decline in physical and mental abilities. In this volume leading
gerontologists and geriatric researchers explore the immense
potential of older adults to overcome the challenges of old age and
pursue active lives with renewed vitality. The contributors believe
that resilience capacities diminishing with old age is a
misconception and argue that individuals may successfully
capitalize on their existing resources, skills and cognitive
processes in order to achieve new learning, continuing growth, and
enhanced life-satisfaction. By identifying useful psychological
resources such as social connectedness, personal engagement and
commitment, openness to new experiences, social support and
sustained cognitive activity, the authors present a balanced
picture of resilient aging. Older adults, while coping with
adversity and losses, can be helped to maintain a complementary
focus on psychological strengths, positive emotions, and
regenerative capacities to achieve continued growth and healthy
longevity.
Throughout the world, rates of depression are greater among females
than males, and this gender gap emerges during adolescence and
persists throughout adulthood. Until recently, women's health has
centered on the topic of reproductive health, because research
focused almost exclusively on biological and anatomical differences
distinguishing men and women. Social and behavioral research on
gender differences in health now employs multiple disciplinary
frameworks and methodologies, and researchers seek to understand
the higher rates of specific diseases and disorders in women and
men. Symptoms of depression and the diagnosis of depression are
more prevalent in women, and research that focuses on biological,
psychological, and sociopolitical explanations for this gender gap
should now be brought together to better inform efforts at
treatment and prevention. Women and Depression is a handbook that
serves to move toward a more integrative approach to women's
depression in particular and mental health for all more generally.
Throughout the world, rates of depression are greater among females
than males, and this gender gap emerges during adolescence and
persists throughout adulthood. Until recently, women's health has
centered on the topic of reproductive health, because research
focused almost exclusively on biological and anatomical differences
distinguishing men and women. Social and behavioral research on
gender differences in health now employs multiple disciplinary
frameworks and methodologies, and researchers seek to understand
the higher rates of specific diseases and disorders in women and
men. Symptoms of depression and the diagnosis of depression are
more prevalent in women, and research that focuses on biological,
psychological, and sociopolitical explanations for this gender gap
should now be brought together to better inform efforts at
treatment and prevention. Women and Depression is a handbook that
serves to move toward a more integrative approach to women's
depression in particular and mental health for all more generally.
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