Handbook of adult resilience / edited by John W. Reich, Alex J. Zautra, John Stuart Hall.

New York : The Guilford Press, [2010]

xix, 540 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Resilience : a new definition of health for people and communities / Alex J. Zautra, John Stuart Hall, and Kate E. Murray -- Psychobiological mechanisms of resilience to stress / Adriana Feder [and others] -- Genes and environments : how they work together to promote resilience / Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant -- Positive emotions as a basic building block of resilience in adulthood / Anthony D. Ong, C.S. Bergeman, and Sy-Miin Chow -- Personal intelligence and resilience : recovery in the shadow of broken connections / John D. Mayer and Michael A. Faber -- The resilient personality / Andrew E. Skodol -- Resilience in response to loss / Kathrin Boerner and Daniela Jopp -- Psychopathology as dysfunctional self-regulation : when resilience resources are compromised / Paul Karoly -- Self-complexity : a source of resilience? / Eshkol Rafaeli and Atara Hiller -- Anchored by faith : religion as a resilience factor / Kenneth I. Pargament and Jeremy Cummings -- Resilience over the lifespan : developmental perspectives on resistance, recovery, and transformation / Ann S. Masten and Margaret O'Dougherty Wright -- Early adversity and resilience in emerging adulthood / Linda J. Luecken and Jenna L. Gress -- Resilience to potential trauma : toward a lifespan approach / Anthony D. Mancini and George A. Bonanno -- Resilience in adolescence : overcoming neighborhood disadvantage / Marc A. Zimmerman and Allison B. Brenner -- Social support and growth following adversity / Vicky S. Helgeson and Lindsey Lopez -- Building organizational resilience and adaptive management / Janet Denhardt and Robert Denhardt -- Indicators of community resilience : what are they, why bother? / John Stuart Hall and Alex J. Zautra -- Cultural adaptation and resilience : controversies, issues, and emerging models / Felipe González Castro and Kate E. Murray -- Cultural dimensions of resilience among adults / Michael Ungar -- The emergence of capacity-building programs and models of resilience / Martha Kent and Mary C. Davis -- Boosting happiness, buttressing resilience : results from cognitive and behavioral interventions / Sonja Lyubomirsky and Matthew D. Della Porta -- Positive affect at the onset of chronic illness : planting the seeds of resilience / Judith Tedlie Moskowitz -- Asset-based strategies for building resilient communities / John P. Kretzmann -- Health in a new key : fostering resilience through philanthropy / Roger A. Hughes.