The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and BuildLifelong Resilience

Proven Program to Help Children Avoid Depression

Through a series of studies and test groups, Seligman has developed a program to 'innoculate' at-risk children from depression. In The Optimistic Child, Seligman reveals his program whereby children can learn to question their own negative thoughts and de-catastrophize situations in order to better resolve problems. Self-esteem is learned not through meaningless feel-good phrases but through 'mastery' and genuine praise appropriately scaled for the situation. Although Seligman's program is meant for the pre-teen set, a section at the end gives advice for parents of younger children. This book will be a great resource for any parent and is easy to read and apply.

A must read ...

This book changed my life. I've bought so many copies to give to others and recommended it to countless others because it's that good. Originally, I bought my first copy because the title intrigued me, and I thought my son needed a little optimism. But as usually happens when you try to improve others, you end up finding out things about yourself you never realized. The Optimistic Child provides the reader with an easy-to-follow approach for changing the negative, self-defeating thoughts that cause depression into rational, self-empowering assessments. It's easy to read, and its methods are easy to implement and very effective.

Wonderful Book! It will definately help my family.

My husband has been diagnosed with long-term depression and I was very fearful it would become genetic, as his father was also severely depressed and for long term. I was beginning to see some of the signs in my 5 yr old son and bought this book, hoping to help my son. After 4 chapters, I could see that this book would help tremendously! It seemed that following the advice of so many so-called experts wasn't helping, the build the self-esteem theory. Dr. Seligman seems to be dead on the money with his advice regarding allowing the kids to build their own self-esteem! If I can get my husband to read it, I am hoping it will give him some self-awareness to begin healing himself.

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