Handbook of Resilience in Children

The third edition of this handbook addresses not only the concept of resilience in children who overcome adversity, but it also explores the development of children not considered at risk addressing recent challenges as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new edition reviews the scientific literature that supports findings that stress-hardiness and resilience in all children leads to happier and healthier lives as well as improved functionality across the lifespan. In this edition, expert contributors examine resilience in relation to environmental stressors as phenomena in child and adolescent disorders and as a means toward positive adaptation into adulthood.

The significantly expanded third edition includes new and significantly revised chapters that explore strategies for developing resilience in families, clinical practice, and educational settings as well as its nurturance in caregivers and teachers. Key areas of coverage include: 

• Exploration of the four waves of resilience research.
• Resilience in gene-environment transactions.
• Resilience in boys and girls.
Resilience in family processes. 
• Asset building as an essential component of intervention.
• Assessment of social and emotional competencies related to resilience.
• Building resilience through school bullying prevention.
• Resilience in positive youth development.
• Enhancing resilience through effective thinking.

The Handbook of Resilience in Children, Third Edition, is an essential reference for researchers, clinicians and allied practitioners, and graduate students across such interrelated disciplines as child and school psychology, social work, public health as well as developmental psychology, special and general education, child and adolescent psychiatry, family studies, and pediatrics.

• Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
• Bullying, violence, and resilience
• Child maltreatment and resilience
• Clinical settings, schools, and resilience
• Conner-David Resilience Scale
• Cultures and resilience
• Depression and resilience
• Disruptive disorders and resilience
• Emotion regulation and resilience
• Family violence and resilience in children
• Genes, environment and resilience
• Girls, young females and resilience
• Juvenile offenders and resilience
• Learning disabilities, classrooms and resilience
• LGBTQ youth and resilience
• Protective and compensatory experiences (PACEs)
• Resiliency scales for children and adolescents
• Risk inventory and strengths evaluation
• School climate and resilience
• Socioemotional development and resilience

• Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA

  Sam Goldstein

• Department of Psychology, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Needham, USA

  Robert B. Brooks

Sam Goldstein obtained his Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Utah and is licensed as a Psychologist and Certified School Psychologist in the state of Utah. He is also board certified as a Pediatric Neuropsychologist and listed in the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the University of Utah School of Medicine. He has authored, co-edited, or co-authored over fifty clinical and trade publications, three dozen chapters, nearly three dozen peer-reviewed scientific articles, and eight psychological and europsychological tests. Since 1980, he has served as Clinical Director of The Neurology, Learning, and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Robert B. Brooks obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Clark University in Worcester, MA, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado Medical School in Denver. He is board certified in Clinical Psychology and listed in the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School (part-time) and is Former Director of the Department of Psychology at McLean Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital. He has authored, co-edited, or co-authored 19 books and, in addition, authored or co-authored almost three dozen chapters and more than three dozen peer-reviewed scientific articles. He has received numerous awards for his work, including most recently the Mental Health Humanitarian Award from William James College in Massachusetts for his contributions as a Clinician, Educator, and Author.

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