What enables people to bounce back from stressful experiences? How do certain individuals maintain a sense of purpose and direction over the long term, even in the face of adversity? This is the first book to move beyond childhood and adolescence to explore resilience across the lifespan. Coverage ranges from genetic and physiological factors through personal, family, organizational, and community processes. Contributors examine how resilience contributes to health and well-being across the adult life cycle; why--and what happens when--resilience processes fail; ethnic and cultural dimensions of resilience; and ways to enhance adult resilience, including reviews of exemplary programs.
I. Resilience at Many Levels of Analysis 1. Resilience: A New Definition of Health for People and Communities, Alex J. Zautra, John Stuart Hall, and Kate E. MurrayII. Basic Dimensions of Resilience A. Biological Dimensions of Resilience2. Psychobiological Mechanisms of Resilience to Stress, Adriana Feder, Eric J. Nestler, Maren Westphal, and Dennis S. Charney3. Genes and Environments: How They Work Together to Promote Resilience, Kathryn Lemery-ChalfantB. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Models of Resilience4. Positive Emotions as a Basic Building Block of Resilience in Adulthood, Anthony D. Ong, C. S. Bergeman, and Sy-Miin Chow5. Personal Intelligence and Resilience: Recovery in the Shadow of Broken Connections, John D. Mayer and Michael A. Faber6. The Resilient Personality, Andrew E. Skodol7. Resilience in Response to Loss, Kathrin Boerner and Daniela Jopp8. Psychopathology as Dysfunctional Self-Regulation: When Resilience Resources Are Compromised, Paul Karoly9. Self-Complexity: A Source of Resilience?, Eshkol Rafaeli and Atara Hiller10. Anchored by Faith: Religion as a Resilience Factor, Kenneth I. Pargament and Jeremy CummingsC. Resilience across the Lifespan11. Resilience over the Lifespan: Developmental Perspectives on Resistance, Recovery, and Transformation, Ann S. Masten and Margaret O'Dougherty Wright12. Early Adversity and Resilience in Emerging Adulthood, Linda J. Luecken and Jenna L. Gress13. Resilience to Potential Trauma: Toward a Lifespan Approach, Anthony D. Mancini and George A. BonannoD. Social Dimensions of Resilience14. Resilience in Adolescence: Overcoming Neighborhood Disadvantage, Marc A. Zimmerman and Allison B. Brenner15. Social Support and Growth Following Adversity, Vicki S. Helgeson and Lindsey LopezE. Organizational and Public Policy Dimensions of Resilience 16. Building Organizational Resilience and Adaptive Management, Janet Denhardt and Robert Denhardt17. Indicators of Community Resilience: What Are They, Why Bother?, John Stuart Hall and Alex J. ZautraIII. Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Resilience18. Cultural Adaptation and Resilience: Controversies, Issues, and Emerging Models, Felipe Gonzalez Castro and Kate E. Murray19. Cultural Dimensions of Resilience among Adults, Michael Ungar IV. Interventions for Enhancing Resilience20. The Emergence of Capacity-Building Programs and Models of Resilience, Martha Kent and Mary C. Davis21. Boosting Happiness, Buttressing Resilience: Results from Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions, Sonja Lyubomirsky and Matthew D. Della Porta22. Positive Affect at the Onset of Chronic Illness: Planting the Seeds of Resilience, Judith Tedlie Moskowitz23. Asset-Based Strategies for Building Resilient Communities, John P. Kretzmann24. Health in a New Key: Fostering Resilience through Philanthropy, Roger A. Hughes
