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Health and Resilience
Ostrowski, Tadeusz M.; Sikorska, Iwona
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Description for Health and Resilience
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
This collection provides readers with an opportunity to consider the issue of mental health and resilience from various perspectives. It examines numerous concepts of resilience as they relate to patterns of adaptation in adverse contexts. Consequently, resilience can be conceived by readers as good adaptation, effective coping, or well-being attained despite adversity.
Referring to a class of complex phenomena, resilience is not only a basic category for developmental psychopathology and positive psychology but also applies to developmental, educational, family, and health psychology, as well as to psychoneuroimmunology. The chapters in this book address the issue of resilience from either ... Read more
This collection provides readers with an opportunity to consider the issue of mental health and resilience from various perspectives. It examines numerous concepts of resilience as they relate to patterns of adaptation in adverse contexts. Consequently, resilience can be conceived by readers as good adaptation, effective coping, or well-being attained despite adversity.
Referring to a class of complex phenomena, resilience is not only a basic category for developmental psychopathology and positive psychology but also applies to developmental, educational, family, and health psychology, as well as to psychoneuroimmunology. The chapters in this book address the issue of resilience from either ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Poland
Condition
New
Number of pages
214
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Krakow, Poland
ISBN
9788323336259
SKU
V9788323336259
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About Ostrowski, Tadeusz M.; Sikorska, Iwona
Tadeusz Marian Ostrowski, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, the Head of the Developmental and Health Psychology Department of this University's Institute of Applied Psychology, a 2nd degree of specialisation in adults clinical psychology holder. Iwona Sikorska, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Developmental and Health Psychology Department, Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
Reviews for Health and Resilience
"The monograph Health and Resilience adresses a very important and still neglected in Poland, issue of the relationship between psychological resilience and health. This issue is the subject of interest to a variety of scientific disciplines, including psychology. The very concept of resilience, however, is still variously understood and there is no common position in this regard. It is also ... Read more