The Optimistic Child by Martin E P Seligman

The Optimistic Child by Martin E P Seligman

In The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism-dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback-and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression, achieve more on the playing field and at school, and improve their physical health. As Seligman states in his afterword for this edition, Teaching children optimism is more, I realized, than just correcting pessimism. . . . It is the creation of a positive strength, a sunny but solid future-mindedness that can be deployed throughout life-not only to fight depression and to come back from failure, but also to be the foundation of success and vitality.

Professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Martin Seligman, Ph.D. He's written a number of books, including Learned Optimism and Genuine Happiness. He is a former director of clinical training in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a previous president of the American Psychological Association and the division of clinical psychology of the American Psychological Association.

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ISBN 13	9780618918096
ISBN 10	0618918094
Title	The Optimistic Child
Author	Martin E P Seligman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	2007-09-17
Number of pages	352
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