Resilience and Vulnerability
Subtitle: Adaptation in the Context of Childhood Adversities
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 5, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9780521807012
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Paediatric medicine; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; General; Psychology; Resilience (Personality trait); Developmental - Child; Mental Health; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Adaptability (Psychology) in c; Adaptability (Psychology) in children; Resilience (Personality trait) in children
First sentence: It was a search for understanding the nature and origins of schizophrenia that brought Norman Garmezy to the study of children at risk for psychopathology, a pursuit that eventually led to the Project Competence studies of competence, adversity, and resilience (Garmezy, 1973).