Why Some Children Succeed Despite the Odds

by Waln K. Brown and Warren Rhodes

What determines whether a child will fall victim to his troubled surroundings or whether he will overcome the adversity and even emerge strengthened? Mental health professionals are beginning to focus on the identification of factors which can promote healthy adjustment, or, resilience, in children. In this volume, leading scholars in the field pioneer this alternative approach toward mental illness by attempting to define these factors of resilience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275937054
• ISBN13: 9780275937058
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"