Library Guides: The Well for Health Promotion: Resilience

Articles on Resilience

Bai, S., & Repetti, R. L. (2015). Short‐term resilience processes in the family. Family Relations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies, 64(1), 108-119. doi:10.1111/fare.12101

Fletcher, D., & Sarkar, M. (2013). Psychological resilience: A review and critique of definitions, concepts, and theory. European Psychologist, 18(1), 12-23. doi:10.1027/1016-9040/a000124

Macedo, T., Wilheim, L., Gonçalves, R., Coutinho, E. S. F., Vilete, L., Figueira, I., & Ventura, P. (2014). Building resilience for future adversity: A systematic review of interventions in non-clinical samples of adults. BMC Psychiatry, 14.

Oken, B. S., Chamine, I., & Wakeland, W. (2015). A systems approach to stress, stressors and resilience in humans. Behavioural Brain Research, 282, 144-154. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2014.12.047

Stewart, D., & Wang, D. (2012). Building resilience through school-based health promotion: A systematic review. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 14(4), 207-218. doi:10.1080/14623730.2013.770319

Select Books on Resilience

The Resilience Dividend by Judith Rodin
Call Number: BF698.35.R47 R63 2014
ISBN: 9781610394703
Publication Date: 2014-11-11
Through an astonishing range of stories, Rodin shows how people, organizations, businesses, communities, and cities have developed resilience in the face of otherwise catastrophic challenges
Hardiness by Salvatore R. Maddi
Call Number: BF698.35.R47 M33 2013
ISBN: 9789400752214
Publication Date: 2012-09-21
Hardiness is the pattern of attitudes and skills that provides the courage and strategies that helps people be resilient by turning potential disasters into growth opportunities and fulfillment, thereby enhancing their performance, sense of fulfillment, and health.
Good Stuff by Salman Akhtar
Call Number: BF818 .A36 2013
ISBN: 9780765709769
Publication Date: 2012-12-27
Good Stuff is divided into two main parts; Part I addresses Positive Attributes and Part II, Positive Actions.
The Resilience Handbook by Martha Kent (Editor); Mary C. Davis (Editor); John W. Reich (Editor)
Call Number: BF698.35.R47 R47117 2014
ISBN: 9780415699877
Publication Date: 2013-11-15
Experts in the science of resilience draw on human and animal research to describe the process of resilience and follow its course as it unfolds both within individuals and in social networks.
Facilitating Resilience and Recovery Following Trauma by Lori A. Zoellner (Editor); Norah C. Feeny (Editor)
Call Number: BF698.35.R47 F33 2014
ISBN: 9781462513505
Publication Date: 2014-01-21
This volume brings together prominent experts to explore processes of resilience and recovery after trauma.
Fostering Resilience for Loss and Irrelevance by Eric A. Kreuter
Call Number: BF698.35.R47 K74 2013 and online
ISBN: 9781461457725
Publication Date: 2012-12-11
Explores the topic in detail with references to the literature where prior theory can be applied to advance this topic further.

Kids Books Promoting Resilience

Moondance by Frank Asch (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ 7 .A778 Mpe 1993 (Amoss)
ISBN: 0590454870
Publication Date: 1993-05-01
Bear wants to dance with the moon, but doesn't feel worthy of the honor.
How Are You Peeling? by Saxton Freymann; Joost Elffers
Call Number: TX 652 .F699 1999 (Vorhoff Library)
ISBN: 0439104319
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
Brief text and photographs of carvings made from vegetables introduce the world of emotions by presenting leading questions such as "Are you feeling angry?"
I have feelings. by Terry Berger; Howard Spivak
Call Number: PZ10.B295224 Iah
Publication Date: 1971
A youngster responds to different situations with varying feelings.