Learning from Resilient People: Lessons We Can Apply to Counseling and Psychotherapy / Edition 1

by Morley D. Glicken

Overview

This comprehensive core textbook analyzes how resilient people navigate the troubled waters of life's traumas and identifies how learning about resilience may help cultivate this quality in other, less resilient, people. Author Morley D. Glicken explains the inner self-healing processes of resilient people and helps individuals training in the helping professions to learn to use these processes in working with their clients.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412904841
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/03/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	1,019,257
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Morley D. Glicken is the former Dean of the Worden School of Social Service in San Antonio; the founding director of the Master of Social Work Department at California State University, San Bernardino; the past Director of the Master of Social Work Program at the University of Alabama; and the former Executive Director of Jewish Family Service of Greater Tucson. He has also held faculty positions in social work at the University of Kansas and Arizona State University. He currently teaches in the Department of Social Work at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Dr. Glicken received his BA degree in social work with a minor in psychology from the University of North Dakota and holds an Master of Social Work degree from the University of Washington and the Master of Public Administration and Doctor of Social Work degrees from the University of Utah. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Fraternity.

In 2010, Praeger Press published his books on workaholism and retirement and another on mature love. In 2009, Praeger Press published his book A Simple Guide to Retirement (with Brian Haas). Elsevier, Inc. published his books Evidence-Based Practice with Troubled Children and Adolescents: A Psychosocial Perspective and, Evidence Based Counseling and Psychotherapy with an Aging Population, also in 2009. In 2008 he published A Guide to Writing for Human Service Professionals for Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. In 2006 he published Life Lessons from Resilient People, published by Sage Publications. He published Working with Troubled Men: A Practitioner’s Guide for Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers in 2005 and Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice in 2004 for Sage Publications. In 2003 he published Violent Young Children, and Understanding and Using the Strengths Perspective for Allyn and Bacon/Longman Publishers. Dr. Glicken published two books for Allyn and Bacon/Longman Publishers in 2002: The Role of the Helping Professions in the Treatment of Victims and Perpetrators of Crime (with Dale Sechrest) and, A Simple Guide to Social Research.

Dr Glicken has published over 50 articles in professional journals and has written extensively on personnel issues for Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal. He has held clinical social work licenses in Alabama and Kansas and is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers. He is currently Professor Emeritus in Social Work at California State University, San Bernardino and Executive Director of the Institute for Personal Growth: A Research, Treatment, and Training Institute in Prescott, Arizona offering consulting services in counseling, research, and management.

More information about Dr. Glicken may be obtained on his website: www.morleyglicken.com. A listing of all of his books may be found on Amazon.com at:

https://authorcentral.amazon.com/v/1973805540 and he can be contacted by email at: [e-mail].

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM RESILIENT PEOPLE
Ch 1: Understanding Resilience
Definitions of Resilience
Attributes of Resilient People
Coping With Stress as an Additional Aspect of Resilience
Examples of Resilient Responses of Traumatized Adolescents
Summary
PART II: HOW RESILIENT PEOPLE USE CULTURE, SPIRITUALITY, AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE THEIR SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONING
Ch 2: Resilience and the Impact of Spiritual and Religious Beliefs on Health and Mental Health
The Impact of Spirituality and Religious Involvement on Health and Mental Health
A Story About an Abusive Relationship That Ended After a Religious Conversion
Lessons to Be Learned From This Story
Why Religious and Spiritual Involvement May Lead to Resilience
A Story About the Impact of Religious Differences on an Intimate Relationship
Lessons to Be Learned From This Story
Should Issues of Religion and Spirituality Be Included in Our Work With Clients?
Summary
Ch 3: Helping Others as an Attribute of Resilience
Indigenous Helpers
Examples of Indigenous Helpers
Self-Help Groups and Indigenous Helpers
Attributes of Indigenous Helpers
A Story of an Indigenous Helper
A Story About an Indigenous Helper Starting a Self-Help Group
Summary
Ch 4: The Powerful Helping Impulse of Our Cultural Heritage: Examples From Three Ethnic Groups
Resilience in Latinos
Introduction
How Latino Cultures Cope With Social and Emotional Problems
The Importance of Cultural Metaphors (Dichos) in Latino Life
A Focus on Feelings
Cultural Issues That Affect Latino Resilience
A Story About How a Resilient Latina Copes With Life
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
Resilience in African Americans
How Resilient African Americans Cope With Life
A Story About Abandonment by a Father
Another Story About Abandonment
Lessons to be Learned From These Stories
Resilience in Ethnically Traditional Asian Americans (With Steven Ino)
The Collective Self
The Importance of Family and Social Harmony
When Asian Americans' Resilience Fails
Issues That Test Resilience
A Story About James and Lisa, a Bicultural Couple
An Interview With James and Lisa
Summary
PART III: EXAMPLES OF RESILIENCE ACROSS AREAS OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DIFFICULTY
Ch 5: How Resilient People Cope With Substance Abuse
The Extent of the Problem
The Research on Resilience in Coping With Drug and Alcohol Abuse
A Story of Family Resilience and Alcohol Abuse
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
A Story of a Baseball Player and Attorney Jailed Because of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
A Story About an Adolescent Substance Abuser
Lessons to Be Learned From This Story
A Story About Recovery From Substance Abuse
Lessons to Be Learned From This Story
Summary
Ch 6: How Resilient People Cope With Mental Illness
The Extent and Impact of Mental Illness
Traditional Treatments of Mental Illness: A Research Review
Evidence of Resilience in People Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
A Story of a Spontaneous Remission From Mental Illness
An Interview With the Storyteller
A Story About Long-Term Emotional Problems
Summary
Ch 7: How Resilient Children Cope With Abuse
Resilience in Abused Children
A Story of a Child Coping With Abusive Parents
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
A Story of a Resilient Child Coping With Adulthood
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
Factors Predicting Resilience in Abused Children
Biological Factors
Psychological Factors
Factors Within the Family
Factors Outside the Family
Summary
Ch 8: How Resilient People Cope With Life-Threatening Illness, Disabilities, and Bereavement
Coping With Serious Illness
A Story of a Resilient Woman Coping With Breast Cancer
Further Thoughts of the Storyteller
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
Coping With Serious Illness: Another View
Coping With Bereavement
Coping With the Death of a Loved One
A Story About the Death of Family Members
Lessons to Be Learned From This Story
Coping With Disabilities
A Case Study of Jack, a Man Coping With a Disability
Jack's Behavioral Chart
Summary
Ch 9: Resilience in Older Adults
Coping With Problems Related to Aging
Late Life Depression: The Case of Primo Levi
A Story of Resilience in Aging
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
A Case Study of Resilience in a Depressed Older Male
Discussion of the Case
A Case Study of a Depressed Older Female With a Substance Abuse Problem
Discussion of the Case
Summary
Ch 10. Resilience in Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Individuals
Harassment, Homophobia, and Vulnerability
GLBT Resilience
A Story About a First Awareness of Being Gay
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
A Story About Coming Out
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
A Story About Confronting Homophobia
Lessons to Be Learned From This Story
Summary
Ch 11. How Resilient People Cope With Loneliness, Isolation, and Depression
Why Resilient People Sometimes Experience Loneliness, Isolation, and Depression
The Prevalence of Depression
The Nature of Loneliness and Depression
The Treatment of Loneliness and Depression
A Story About Loneliness and Isolation
Lessons to Be Learned From This Story
A Story About Loneliness in the Company of Others
The Storyteller's Self-Analysis
Summary
Ch 12. Family Resilience
The Changing American Family
A Small Sample View of Family Life in America
Stories About Family Life
What These Stories Say About Family Life
Characteristics of Family Resilience
A Story About a Resilient Immigrant Family
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
A Story That Needs No Explanation
Summary
References
Ch 13: How Resilient People Cope With Acts of Random Violence
Debriefing
Responses of Resilient People to Violence
A Story About Random Violence
Lessons to be Learned From This Story
A Story About a Resilient Woman Coping With an Act of Terrorism
The Storyteller's Self-Analysis
Summary
Ch 14: Resilient Communities
Resilience and Healthy Community Life
A Resilient Community Deals with Youth Violence
A Story of a Resilient Community Constructing a Violence Treatment Program
The Results of the Program: An Interview With Members of the City Council
A Story About a Resilient Community Coping With a Devastating Flood
Summary
PART IV: PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS
Ch 15: The Primary Behaviors of Resilient People: Application of Findings to Practice
The Attributes of Resilient People and Practice Recommendations
Additional Attributes of Resilient People
A Story About a Young Worker Finding Resilience in His Clients
Final Words
References
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

"The research presented in this book is comprehensive, and it is obvious that the author is very well versed in the area of positive psychology. A definite strength of this book, and one that I think instructors and students will find particularly helpful, are the several case studies presented throughout the test, usually at the end of each chapter. These compelling case studies illustrate the concepts the are discussed in each chapter in vivid and real-world fashion."

Sameet Kumar