Overview
- Synthesizes research from developmental psychology, medical anthropology, and pediatric psychology on children’s resilience in medical contexts
- Addresses the resilience ecology of serious illness and extended hospitalization of children
- Discusses ongoing developmental processes and protective factors of children with illnesses
- Promotes best practices based on relevant theory and evidence-based research?
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Featured topics include:
- Psychosocial factors influencing children with immune-related health conditions.
- Resilience and pediatric cancer survivorship within a cultural context.
- Promoting resilience in chronically ill children and their families during the transition to adolescence.
- Creating a context for resilience in medical settings.
- Promoting resilience through children’s health and social care policy.
Child and Adolescent Resilience Within Medical Contexts is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and other professionals, as well as graduate students in child and school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, pediatrics, medical anthropology, nursing, educational psychology and policy.
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Keywords
- Acute stressors and resilience in children
- Biopsychosocial foundations of resilience in children
- Biopsychosocial prevention and resilience in children
- Biopsychosocial prevention and resilience in medical settings
- Child health psychology and resilience
- Chronic conditions and resilience in children
- Competence and resilience in children in medical contexts
- Cultural contexts and resilience in children
- Ecological prevention and resilience in children
- Ecological prevention and resilience in medical settings
- Ecological system theory of resilience in children
- Families and resilience in children
- Global perspectives on medical resilience in children
- Medical practitioners and resilience in children
- Pediatric psychology and resilience
- Resilience in children in medical settings
- Resilience theory in medical contexts
- Roots of Resilience project
- Substance abuse and resilience in children
- Treatment relationship and resilience in children with cancer
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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The Individual in Context
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The Social Space of Illness
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Interventions, Therapies, and Techniques
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Social Structure and Policy Formation
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michel Ferrari, Ph.D., teaches developmental and educational psychology in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), part of the University of Toronto. From 2004 to 2005, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and in 2013 was a visiting scholar at the University of Potsdam. He is interested in personal identity and developing wisdom throughout the lifespan and has studied self-understanding of identity in people diagnosed with autism. Dr. Ferrari has coauthored and coedited books on wisdom, including, Teaching for Wisdom (with Georges Potworowski, Amsterdam: Springer, 2008), and The Science of Personal Wisdom (with Nic Weststrate, Springer, 2014). Dr. Ferrari has also coedited books on child development and education, most recently, Developmental Relations Among Mind, Brain, and Education: Essays in Honor of Robbie Case (with Ljiljana Vuletic, Amsterdam: Springer, 2010), and a Handbook on Resilience in Children of War (with Chandi Fernando, Springer, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child and Adolescent Resilience Within Medical Contexts
Book Subtitle: Integrating Research and Practice
Editors: Carey DeMichelis, Michel Ferrari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32223-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32221-6Published: 24 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68374-4Published: 14 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32223-0Published: 13 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 345
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work