Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience

Resilience is a biopsychosocial phenomenon-it encompasses personal, interpersonal, and community experiences.�Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience reviews the current research and details differing levels and approaches to resilience. On a microlevel, this book specifies how to develop appropriate coping strategies, maintain cognitive flexibility, and identify, label, and share feelings before acting upon them. On a macrolevel, it defines and explores environmental resilience, social resilience, community resilience, and family resilience.� It focuses on the importance of�family, community, and spiritual bonds, in order to share experiences and enhance posttraumatic healing.� The need to be firmly grounded in today, while learning from yesterday, in order to cope with the requirements of tomorrow is the primary emphasis of this�book.��

• 2018 PROSE Awards - Winner, Award for Applied Social Work, Nursing and Allied Health: Association of American Publishers
• Explores aspects of resilience within the individual, community, and environment
• Outlines critical factors that allow people to not just survive, but to thrive
• Addresses the crucial role of the family in the development of resilience
• Reflects upon the helping professional's need to achieve and maintain resilience