The optimistic child : a proven program to safeguard children against depression and build lifelong resilience
(2007, original release: 1995)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
155.4124/SELIGMAN,M

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 155.4124/SELIGMAN,M Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [2007]
©2007
EDITION
First Houghton Mifflin paperback edition
DESCRIPTION

342 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780618918096, 0618918094
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally published: 1995. With new foreword and afterword

Why children need optimism -- Where boomer child rearing went wrong -- Is your child an optimist or a pessimist? -- How to raise children to optimism and mastery -- The children of the twenty-first century

In the face of increasing levels of depression affecting American children, a new edition of the best-selling guide to preventing childhood depression shows parents and educators how to instill optimism, resilience, and confidence in children, enabling them to feel self-reliant, boost self-esteem, and perform better in school

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