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A Parent's Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens (Ginsburg, Jablow, 2006)
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Product Description
Today’s children face a great deal of stress — academic performance, heavy scheduling, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressures, family tension. Without healthier solutions, they often cope by talking back, giving up, or indulging in unhealthy behaviors. Show your child how to bounce back — and THRIVE — with coping strategies from one of the nation’s foremost experts in adolescent medicine.
 
This 7-C plan for resilience that helps kids of all ages learn competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control to help them bounce back from challenges. You'll find effective strategies to help your children and teens: 
•  Make wise decisions
•  Recognize and build on their natural strengths
•  Deal effectively with stress
•  Foster hope and optimism
•  Develop skills to navigate a complex world
•  Avoid risky behaviors
•  Take care of their emotions and their bodies
Plus, two Personalized Stress Management Plans help your child create a customized strategy. It’s everything your child needs to face life’s challenges and bounce back with confidence!

About the Author
Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and practices adolescent medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and author of But, I’m Almost 13!: Raising a Responsible Adult. He is the father of two children and lives in Philadelphia.  Martha M. Jablow has written extensively on parenting as the author of several books and articles.

p.4 our goal will have to be resilience, not invulnerability. Resilience is the capacity to rise above difficult circumstances, the trait that allows us to exist in this less-than-perfect world while moving forward with optimism and confidence even in the midst of adversity.

Resilience is commonly defined as an ability to recover from setbacks, the quality of bouncing back. Resilience is similar to buoyancy. When pushed under water, our bodies instinctively rise back up to the surface. That’s a useful image to keep in mind as we consider resilience throughout this book. It’s what we want our children to be able to do: when pushed under, rise to the top again.

  Resilience is not invulnerability, not perfection, not isolation from all risk.

p.155 resilience requires a wide repertoire of skills to cope with stress and challenge. Here's the bottom line - life is stressful, so we need to prepare children to handle it effectively. In other words, they need to become competent at coping if they are to be resilient.
 
p.164 Any effective approach to managing stress begins by identifying the cause of the stress, what it's doing to you, and what you can do to solve the problem... it's equally important to know how to remove the barriers... that get in the way of solving problems. To begin to do that, young people have to understand how to assess a situation realistically.
 
p.188 These benefits of creative expression make us more flexible and resilient in confronting challenges. Children who develop their creative selves enhance their resilience by learning to see problems from many angles and meet challenges by using varied techniques and perspectives.
 
p.245 We must never believe that resilient means invulnerable.

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