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Author Seligman, Martin E. P.

Title The optimistic child : a proven program to safeguard children against depression and build lifelong resilience / Martin E.P. Seligman, with Karen Reivich, Lisa Jaycox, and Jane Gillham.

Edition First Houghton Mifflin paperback edition.
Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007.
Location Call No. Status
 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  155.4124 SEL    AVAILABLE
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Description 342 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Originally published: 1995. With new foreword and afterword.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-323) and index.
Contents Why children need optimism -- Where boomer child rearing went wrong -- Is your child an optimist or a pessimist? -- How to raise children to optimism and mastery -- The children of the twenty-first century.
Subject Optimism in children.
Resilience (Personality trait) in children.
Child rearing.
Positive psychology.
Added Author Reivich, Karen.
Jaycox, Lisa.
Gillham, Jane.
ISBN 9780618918096
0618918094
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