Coping and the Challenge of Resilience

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Capturing the Resiliency Construct

   • Erica Frydenberg

   Pages 1-12

3. Positive Psychology, Mindset, Grit, Hardiness, and Emotional Intelligence and the Construct of Resilience: A Good Fit with Coping

   • Erica Frydenberg

   Pages 13-28

4. The Utility of Coping When Considering Resilience

   • Erica Frydenberg

   Pages 29-45

5. The Measurement of Coping

   • Erica Frydenberg

   Pages 47-66

6. What We Know About Coping

   • Erica Frydenberg

   Pages 67-109

7. Social Support, Proactivity, and Related Approaches

   • Erica Frydenberg

   Pages 111-122

8. Stress Resilience and Ageing

   • Erica Frydenberg

   Pages 123-133

9. Development of Coping in the Formative Years: Building Resilience

   • Erica Frydenberg

   Pages 135-151

10. Building Resilience Through Coping in the Early Years

    • Erica Frydenberg

    Pages 153-174

11. Spiritual Approaches to Coping and Mindfulness

    • Erica Frydenberg

    Pages 175-192

12. The Resilient Coper

    • Erica Frydenberg

    Pages 193-216

13. Concluding Thoughts

    • Erica Frydenberg

    Pages 217-220

14. Back Matter

    Pages 221-255

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This book addresses how best to meet everyday challenges. The author focuses on how to think and act differently about what we do as we face challenges, and how to assess each situation as one of challenge rather than threat or harm because we have the strategies to cope. Spanning eleven chapters, the book examines the best ways to provide the core skills for life, to children, adolescents and adults, and how that is best achieved through the contemporary theories of coping. Coping has traditionally been defined in terms of reaction; that is, how people respond after or during a stressful event. More recently, coping is being defined more broadly to include anticipatory, preventive and proactive coping. This book provides case studies of resilient adults in a range of settings, highlighting how coping resources have helped them to overcome adversity.


Researchers, students of psychology and social work, practitioners and those interested in the self-help field will find this book invaluable.

• psychology
• mental health
• life skills
• grit
• coping strategies
• wellbeing
• mindfulness
• positivity
• childhood studies

“Coping and the Challenge of Resilience focuses on coping, coping theory, and practice with complementary constructs when appropriate connections may be made. … Coping and the Challenge of Resilience is a useful and readable compendium of coping research and application by Frydenberg. Potential readers would include clinical and school psychologists as well as students in these areas.” (Sandra Prince-Embury, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (24), June, 2017)

• Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  Erica Frydenberg

Erica Frydenberg is an educational, clinical and organisational psychologist who has practiced extensively in the Australian educational setting. She is a Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor in psychology in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, AU, and Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. She has authored and co-authored over 120 academic journal articles and chapters in the field of coping, ranging from early years through to adolescence and adults. 

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