Coping With Adversity

Author : Harold Wolman,Howard Wial,Travis St. Clair,Edward Hill
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501712135

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Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The authors employ a wide range of techniques to examine the experience of all metropolitan area economies from 1978–2014. They then look closely at six American metropolitan areas to determine what strategies were employed, which of these contributed to regional economic resilience, and which did not. Charlotte, North Carolina, Seattle, Washington, and Grand Forks, North Dakota, are cases of economic resilience, while Cleveland, Ohio, Hartford, Connecticut, and Detroit, Michigan, are cases of economic nonresilience. The six case studies include hard data on employment, production, and demographics, as well as material on public policies and actions. The authors conclude that there is little that can done in the short term to counter economic shocks; most regions simply rebound naturally after a relatively short period of time. However, they do find that many regions have successfully emerged from periods of prolonged economic distress and that there are policies that can be applied to help them do so. Coping with Adversity will be important reading for all those concerned with local and regional economic development, including public officials, urban planners, and economic developers.

Author : Eileen S. Lenson
Publisher : Australian Academic Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781925644067

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Overcoming Adversity Conquering Life’s Challenges by Eileen S. Lenson Pdf

No one searches for adversity. Bad things happen. Yet how many of us will know what to do to prevent our lives from spiraling out of control when we encounter traumatic events that threaten our safety, careers, emotions, health, or relationships? In this pragmatic and inspirational book, experienced US-based life coach and psychotherapist Eileen Lenson shows us tools to turn suffering into hope and develop resilience by combining scientific research with an understanding of our emotional and spiritual lives. She cuts through existing myths and provides readers with a look into what it takes to not just overcome adversity and survive, but to thrive. Written to help anyone who finds themselves in a painful place, regardless of social background, culture, religion or education, each chapter describes from a scientific, psychological and spiritual perspective, why we do the things we do. Armed with this knowledge we can learn to manage our feelings and respond to devastating events with the skills to seek healthy coping options and change our lives for the better. In this book you’ll learn how to: • Use five core factors of your life — forgiveness, courage, perspective, perseverance, and hope — to reduce emotional suffering. • Identify and replace unproductive coping skills with healthy thoughts, feelings and behaviors. • Master new skills through practice exercises. • Benefit from the stories of others, just like you, who have faced and overcome adversity.

Author : Joel A. Roffman,Gordon A. Fuller
Publisher : Brown Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1934812226

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Coping with Adversity by Joel A. Roffman,Gordon A. Fuller Pdf

Combining the medical experience of a cardiologist with the Judaic knowledge of a rabbi, Coping with Adversity draws on the practical wisdom of ancient Jewish teachings and scripture to help people of all faiths. The advice, inspiration, and comfort from the vast stores of Judaic heritage uplift the spirit and give encouragement to those facing illness, mental anguish, and uncertainty.

Author : Christopher Greco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1951591275

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8 Steps to Overcoming Everyday Adversity by Christopher Greco Pdf

"Faith-based advice underscored by a powerful story of suffering and perseverance. A book for our times, indeed, for all time, ourselves and our families." - Admiral Bill Owens, US Navy (Ret), Former Vice-Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff No one escapes adversity in this life. At times we all struggle with personal pain that can seem unfair and overwhelming. How do we move forward without turning to self- destructive ways of coping or simply giving up? Christopher Greco's dynamic and faith-inspired book, 8 Steps to Overcoming Everyday Adversity, offers a concise roadmap on how to overcome whatever hardship we face, whether it's dealing with failure, illness, loss and grief, difficult life choices, anxiety about the future, or other challenges. Drawing heavily from his own personal experience, Greco describes how he overcame the event that changed his life and affected him and his family for many years. Rather than become a statistic, Greco sought to improve himself by leaning on his faith, learning in the process that dealing head-on with adversity, hardship, and suffering are necessary parts of the human experience and essential for personal growth. Greco believes we are put on this earth with a mission and lessons to be learned. How we handle adversity can help others find the strength to cope with their challenges as well. The path to a fulfilling, balanced life is possible no matter the circumstances, and this book will show you the way. christophergreco.org

Author : Michael Tlanusta Garrett
Publisher : Nova Science Pub Incorporated
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1631175041

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Youth and Adversity by Michael Tlanusta Garrett Pdf

This book offers the most current research and reviews, innovative programs and approaches, developments and directions, and future outlooks and trends from an international perspective by experts in the field on a variety of current topics related to youth facing adversity with implications for creating and maintaining child and adolescent resilience in a constantly changing world. In these chapters are themes and information that embody the stories of the lives of youth today. Topics include the following: parenting, coping, and motivation of Australian at-risk adolescents; religious rejection and resilience among Christian sexual minority youth; the influences from parents, police, and social work on at-risk youth in Hong Kong; resilience among Native American youth; the experience of Australian children who have been diagnosed and treated for pediatric hematology; the effect in adulthood with Serbian youth who grew up in political and economic turmoil; approaches for overcoming adversity among Arab American youth; EcoWellness as a way to connect with at-risk youth using nature as a basis for overcoming adversity; adolescents and gaming; poly-victimization and resilience among Spanish youth; a Liberation psychology approach to working with borderland Mexican children impacted by violence on the U.S.-Mexico border; substance use and resilience among adolescents; use of the Home Interaction Programme for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) as way for enhancing parenting practices to mitigate socioeconomic disadvantages faced by at-risk youth in New Zealand; use of rite of passage programs, specifically, the Louis Armstrong Manhood Development Program (LAMDP), as a way to address the overrepresentation of African American boys in special education; psychosocial factors involved in adolescent self-injury; and nurturing hope and resilience among at-risk middle school youth using a group rap therapy program called Wrapped in Resilience. All chapters provide a better understanding of various areas in which youth face adversity, and offer implications for ways of helping youth develop resilience and positive coping skills. Building upon the knowledge, awareness, and skills that are explored in this text, helping professionals, researchers, and educators who work with youth begin to better understand and more effectively intervene with the lived experience of youth who face adversity in many different forms today, and who survive these experiences in a way that makes them stronger and more resilient

Author : Erica Frydenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137569240

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Coping and the Challenge of Resilience by Erica Frydenberg Pdf

This book addresses how best to meet everyday challenges. The author focuses on how to think and act differently about what we do as we face challenges, and how to assess each situation as one of challenge rather than threat or harm because we have the strategies to cope. Spanning eleven chapters, the book examines the best ways to provide the core skills for life, to children, adolescents and adults, and how that is best achieved through the contemporary theories of coping. Coping has traditionally been defined in terms of reaction; that is, how people respond after or during a stressful event. More recently, coping is being defined more broadly to include anticipatory, preventive and proactive coping. This book provides case studies of resilient adults in a range of settings, highlighting how coping resources have helped them to overcome adversity. Researchers, students of psychology and social work, practitioners and those interested in the self-help field will find this book invaluable.

Author : Shirley Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950894541

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Overcoming Adversity by Shirley Johnson Pdf

Overcoming Adversity readers will see an array of adverse situations encountered during the life of the author, but they will also see that the Word of God has an answer to all situations. Pain, sickness, teenage pregnancy, brokenness, heartache, domestic violence, sexual exploitation, divorce, death of a loved one, conflicts, anger, betrayal and, many other issues constitute adversity. Whatever you may be experiencing in your life at this time, you can also overcome adversity.

Author : Windy Dryden
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781847091727

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Coping with Life's Challenges by Windy Dryden Pdf

Life's challenges range from redundancy, relationship break-up and illness, to other people's disapproval, rejection and betrayal. Events may shake your sense of identity and leave you feeling insecure, but this isn't the end of the story. Using techniques based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), this book looks at how to surmount difficult but common adversities so that you can move on. Topics include: facing up to inherited tendencies and personal limitations identifying and dealing with areas where you are not in control. living with uncertainty and loss coping with job loss making healthy choices in relationships dealing with failures dealing with unfairness and injustice While even the luckiest of us must sometimes face adversity, we can learn to deal with difficult situations.

Author : Sheryl Sandberg,Adam Grant
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524732684

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Option B by Sheryl Sandberg,Adam Grant Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy. Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, “Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B. We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.

Author : Carl Garrigus
Publisher : Crosslink Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 163357086X

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Overcoming Adversity guides the reader to a closer relationship with God and a deeper faith in the Lord. Through this more intimate relationship withthe Almighty, believers can face any situation with confidence and strength, and lead a life of joy, peace, and contentment

Author : Meg Jay
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781455559145

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Supernormal by Meg Jay Pdf

Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them. Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordinary by these all-too-common experiences, everyday superheroes who have made a life out of dodging bullets and leaping over obstacles, even as they hide in plain sight as doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, parents, activists, teachers, students and readers. She gives a voice to the supernormals among us as they reveal not only "How do they do it?" but also "How does it feel?" These powerful stories, and those of public figures from Andre Agassi to Jay Z, will show supernormals they are not alone but are, in fact, in good company. Marvelously researched and compassionately written, this exceptional book narrates the continuing saga that is resilience as it challenges us to consider whether -- and how -- the good wins out in the end.

Author : Tony Robbins,Peter H. Diamandis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781982121730

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Life Force by Tony Robbins,Peter H. Diamandis Pdf

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Transform your life or the life of someone you love with Life Force—the newest breakthroughs in health technology to help maximize your energy and strength, prevent disease, and extend your health span—from Tony Robbins, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game. What if there were scientific solutions that could wipe out your deepest fears of falling ill, receiving a life-threatening diagnosis, or feeling the effects of aging? What if you had access to the same cutting-edge tools and technology used by peak performers and the world’s greatest athletes? In a world full of fear and uncertainty about our health, it can be difficult to know where to turn for actionable advice you can trust. Today, leading scientists and doctors in the field of regenerative medicine are developing diagnostic tools and safe and effective therapies that can free you from fear. In this book, Tony Robbins, the world’s #1 life and business strategist who has coached more than fifty million people, brings you more than 100 of the world’s top medical minds and the latest research, inspiring comeback stories, and amazing advancements in precision medicine that you can apply today to help extend the length and quality of your life. This book is the result of Robbins going on his own life-changing journey. After being told that his health challenges were irreversible, he experienced firsthand how new regenerative technology not only helped him heal but made him stronger than ever before. Life Force will show you how you can wake up every day with increased energy, a more bulletproof immune system, and the know-how to help turn back your biological clock. This is a book for everyone, from peak performance athletes, to the average person who wants to increase their energy and strength, to those looking for healing. Life Force provides answers that can transform and even save your life, or that of someone you love.

Author : Eileen S. Lenson
Publisher : Australian Academic Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781925644074

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Overcoming Adversity by Eileen S. Lenson Pdf

No one searches for adversity. Bad things happen. Yet how many of us will know what to do to prevent our lives from spiraling out of control when we encounter traumatic events that threaten our safety, careers, emotions, health, or relationships? In this pragmatic and inspirational book, experienced US-based life coach and former psychotherapist Eileen Lenson shows us tools to turn suffering into hope and develop resilience by combining scientific research with an understanding of our emotional and spiritual lives. She cuts through existing myths and provides readers with a look into what it takes to not just overcome adversity and survive, but to thrive. Written to help anyone who finds themselves in a painful place, regardless of social background, culture, religion or education, each chapter describes from a scientific, psychological and spiritual perspective, why we do the things we do. Armed with this knowledge we can learn to manage our feelings and respond to devastating events with the skills to seek healthy coping options and change our lives for the better. In this book you’ll learn how to: • Use five core factors of your life — forgiveness, courage, perspective, perseverance, and hope — to reduce emotional suffering. • Identify and replace unproductive coping skills with healthy thoughts, feelings and behaviors. • Master new skills through practice exercises. • Benefit from the stories of others, just like you, who have faced and overcome adversity.

Author : Anthony Robbins
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Audio/Nightingale-Conant
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Control (Psychology)
ISBN : 1905453752

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Unleash the Power Within by Anthony Robbins Pdf

Author : Geraldine Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798713005511

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Overcoming Adversity by Geraldine Bryant Pdf

Overcoming Adversity answer questions about the complex nature of specific phenomena involving critical incidents perceived to be responsible for African American males dropping out of school. Overcoming Adversity shares stories of thirteen African American males in Cobb County, Georgia. They each share their story and explain what led to their dropping out of school. In Overcoming Adversity, you will not only be amazed at the candor of each participant. You will also be equally impressed by their display of emotional and mental resilience in the face of the adversity they worked to overcome. Author and researcher, Dr. Geraldine Bryant, used the grounded theory conceptual framework to examine the information gathered from the participants. Using this process, she delved into the mind of each participant and learned they all experienced an action, interaction, or process that affected their aspirations and caused them to drop out of school. Data from the interviews were interwoven with a review of literature on the factors that impact African American males dropping out of school. Overcoming Adversity is for Educators Parents Community stakeholders who want to understand African American male's educational battle and the barriers that hinder them from completing high school. The readers will experience the participant's disappointments as they faced specific obstacles that led to them not fulfilling their dreams and aspirations. The research and participant's stories may provide guidance and directions for school and community leaders to help African American males stay in school and accomplish their goals.