Thriving, Surviving, or Going Under: Coping with Everyday Lives (PB)

by Erica Frydenberg (Editor), Erica Frydenberg (Other)

Overview

Schools are increasingly being called upon to aid in the development of resilience in young people in order to be proactive and prevent the consequences of poor social-emotional health and well-being. In this collection of 13 essays, 19 scholars from Australia, the UK, Israel, and the U.S. offer current theory and research on coping by young people

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593111953
Publisher:	Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	08/09/2004
Series:	Research on Stress and Coping in Education Ser.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.72(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Foreword	ix
	Introduction	xiii
Part I.	Understanding Coping
1.	Thriving, Surviving, or Going Under: Which Coping Strategies Relate to Which Outcomes?	3
2.	Students' Self-Evaluations of their Coping: How Well Do They Do It?	25
3.	Children Living with Parental Mental Health Problems: Do Young People Adopt their Parents' Coping Style?	45
Part II.	Resources and Coping with Prevalent Problems
4.	Young People and their Resources	79
5.	Anxiety in Childhood: How Do Children Cope?	109
6.	Two Types of Aggression and the Relationship with Coping: Implications for Educational Practice	135
Part III.	Teaching Coping Skills
7.	Small Kids and Big Challenges: Resilience Promotion at a Young Age	167
8.	Teaching Young People to Cope	189
9.	Adolescent Coping in the Performance Environment: A Program for Upper Secondary School Music Students	207
10.	A Model Counseling Intervention Program to Prepare Adolescents for Coping with Work-Family Conflict	227
11.	Three Keys to Thriving	255
Part IV.	Teacher and Parent Coping
12.	Coping Strategies for Parents	277
13.	Directions in Teacher Training for Low-Burnout Teaching: Lessons from the Research	305