Coping and the Challenge of Resilience

This book addresses how best to meet everyday challenges. The author focuses on how to think and act differently about what we do as we face challenges, and how to assess each situation as one of challenge rather than threat or harm because we have the st

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C O P I N G AND THE C H A L L E N G E OF RESILIENCE

Coping and the Challenge of Resilience

Erica Frydenberg

Coping and the Challenge of Resilience

Erica Frydenberg Graduate School of Education University of Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Preface

We live in an era in which there is an ever-increasing emphasis by psychologists on ways in which we can cope successfully with the problems and setbacks that are inevitably part of the human condition. For example, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of articles focusing on mindfulness, positive psychology, hardiness, and the like. These topics are obviously of vital importance, but the insights produced by psychologists have often been lost from sight in popular self-help books that emphasise the obvious or are simply wrong. Erica Frydenberg has decided (absolutely rightly in my opinion) to focus her book on two topics of special importance: coping and resilience. As she points out at the very start of her excellent book, the huge number of articles on coping has recently been overtaken by an even greater number of articles on resilience. It would take an exceptional individual to provide