Health and Resilience

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-83-233-3625-9
Verlag: Jagiellonian University Press

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 344 g

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 the nomothetic or the idiographic perspective. They discuss theoretical models of resilience, investigate mechanisms and processes connected with health and resilience, scrutinize various aspects of the latter (such as risk and protective factors or internal and external resources), and provide examples of support in difficult life circumstances.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ostrowski, Tadeusz M.

Ostrowski, Tadeusz Marian

Sikorska, Iwona

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Über Autor(innen)

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.