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Enhancing the Process of Resilience Through Effective Thinking
Book chapter

Enhancing the Process of Resilience Through Effective Thinking

Myrna B. Shure and Bonnie Aberson
Handbook of Resilience in Children, pp 427-449
01 Jan 2013

Abstract

Life Sciences & Biomedicine Psychology, Developmental Science & Technology Psychiatry Psychology Social Sciences
In the first edition of this book, a problem-solving approach to resiliency was illustrated to show how early high-risk behaviors as physical and verbal aggression could be reduced and prevented, and how clinical applications of the problem-solving approach could enhance the resiliency of children exhibiting emotional disturbance and ADHD. We have now learned that a different form of aggression, called relational aggression, popularized by the “mean girls syndrome” (e.g., Simmons, Odd girl out: the hidden culture of aggression in girls. Harcourt Books, 2002; Wiseman, Queen Bees and Wannabes: helping your daughter survive cliques, gossip, boyfriends, and the new realities of girl world. Crown, 2002) can stifle resilience, and how the problem-solving approach can help both the perpetrator and the victim of such behaviors. We have also learned how a feeling of bonding to school can increase resilience, and how the problem-solving approach can promote that feeling. Finally, we have discovered that in addition to emotional disturbance and ADHD, children with other diagnoses can be helped with the problem-solving approach, and how this can transpire with Asperger’s syndrome will be illustrated.

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