Resilience in Children, Families, and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy

by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater, Robert J. McMahon, Ray DeV. Peters

Book Overview

Despite the numerous benefits derived from major technological and medical innovations of the past century, we continue to live in a world rife with significant social problems and challenges. Children continue to be born into lives of poverty; others must confront daily their parent's mental illness or substance abuse; still others live amid chronic family discord or child abuse. For some of these children, life's difficulties become overwhelming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441934634
• ISBN13: 9781441934635
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"