The optimistic child : a proven program to safeguard children against depression and build lifelong resilience

The optimistic child A proven program to safeguard children against depression and build lifelong resilience

Martin E. P. Seligman

Book - 2007

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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Subjects
Optimism in children.
Resilience (Personality trait) in children.
Child rearing.
Positive psychology.
Parent and child.
Parenting.
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co [2007]
Language
English
Main Author
Martin E. P. Seligman (-)
Other Authors
Karen Reivich (-), Lisa Jaycox, Jane Gillham
Edition
First Houghton Mifflin paperback edition
Item Description
Originally published: 1995. With new foreword and afterword.
Physical Description
342 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780618918096
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  • 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.

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