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Title: The Optimistic Child : Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resistance by Martin E. Seligman ISBN: 0-06-097709-4 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 11 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What a find
Comment: I never would have imagined the excellent condition of this book. It was recommended to me by a psychologist. I haven't read it yet but it appears to have real life examples, practical quidelines and blank forms for use in assessments of your own.
Rating: 5
Summary: Optimism-an Emotional Intelligence Competency That Works
Comment: I'm an Emotional Intelligence coach. I work with adults teaching them EQ competencies, including optimism, and I've seen it work wonders! Since reading this book, I've been teaching it to children with the same results. It's particularly important in children with high IQs. Their propensity to perceive more deeply, and their perfectionism made them set-up for depression. They can get into trouble with their thinking (can't we all!). Seligman's theory works, if you take the time to understand it and follow his instructions. The essence of optimism is not the upward cycle, but being able to avoid the downward spiral when a disappointment, loss or failure occurs. It's a way of thinking that can be changed. Would you like to live 19% longer, enjoy better health, be more likely to fulfill your potential ... all this backed by Seligman's years of research ... and wouldn't you want this for your child?
Rating: 5
Summary: Just Right If Child and Parents Have Optimistic Temperaments
Comment: Dr. Seligman's book is just right if your child and both parents are temperamentally optimists. In that case, this book is wonderful and I recommend it to you. But if the child or one or both of the parents have a more pessimism-prone personality temperament, it is advisable to add understanding of new research on the cognitive strategy called 'constructive pessimism' which deals with individual differences in the normal range of personality temperaments of optimism -- pessimism. Psychologist Ed Chang edited the new book on that, Optimism and Pessimism. So add Chang to Seligman for balance, and if you need more then look at books by Elaine Aron. That's my advice for completeness -- children and adults really do display a fascinating and sometimes challenging range of personality temperaments. And when it comes to making the most of life, No one size fits all.
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Title: Learned Optimism : How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman ISBN: 0671019112 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Authentic Happiness : Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin Seligman ISBN: 0743222970 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: What You Can Change and What You Can't : The Complete Guide to Successful Self-ImprovementLearning to Accept Who You Are by Martin E. Seligman ISBN: 0449909719 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 24 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman ISBN: 0684838656 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 12 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Raising Resilient Children : Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child by Robert Brooks, Sam Goldstein ISBN: 0809297655 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 28 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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