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
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [2007]
©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