Resilience and Health : Challenges for an Individual, Family, and Community

Ostrowski, Tadeusz Marian (EDT); Piasecka, Boguslawa (EDT); Gerc, Krzysztof (EDT)

ISBN 10: 8323343942 / ISBN 13: 9788323343943

Published by Jagiellonian University Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Resilience and Health : Challenges for an Individual, Family, and Community
• Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8323343942
• ISBN 13: 9788323343943
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Resilience and Health presents a wide-ranging scientific dialogue on resilience issues interpreted in the following contexts: theoretical and philosophical, in the perspective of lifespan developmental psychology, the experience of chronic disease and disability, as well as in the family and social settings. Bringing together these individual parts is an emphasis on principles of positive psychology.

About the Author

Tadeusz Marian Ostrowski is associate professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, where he is head of the Developmental and Health Psychology Department of the Institute of Applied Psychology.

Bogusława Piasecka is assistant professor in the Developmental and Health Psychology Department of the Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She is a certified psychotherapist of the Polish Psychological Association and leads couples and family psychotherapy at the Kraków Therapy Centre and trainings in systemic family therapy at the Center for Psychotherapy and Systemic Training.

Krzysztof Gerc is assistant professor in the Developmental and Health Psychology Department of the Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His research interests include mental development of disabled people and the issues of supporting the development of children and young people who show developmental deficits.