Resilience

2014 Poster Award Honorable Mention: Coaching for Workers with Chronic Illness: Evaluating an Intervention

This study is a pragmatic randomized control trial designed to test the effectiveness of a 12-week, 6-session phone-based coaching intervention to help promote resources and alleviate strain in working adults with chronic illnesses....

Tackling Burnout in Physicians: How Coaching Can Help

In this lively and engaging webinar, Gail Gazelle, MD takes us into the mindset of physicians and the rapidly changing landscape of medical practice​ and health care in general​....

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Books on Resilience

Selected books on resilience that complement MasterClass: Creating Resilient Minds

Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline

In helping establish a new field of study in the organizational sciences, POS, this book examines a variety of positive dynamics in businesses and organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes....

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Valuing Older People: Positive Psychological Practice

This book examines the growing importance of positive psychology and its connection to later life....

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Coaching for Resilience: A Practical Guide to Using Positive Psychology

Many people are ill-equipped to deal with modern-day stressors, causing them to react as though they are being attacked. In Coaching for Resilience, Adrienne Green and John Humphrey use the principles of positive psychology to show coaches, trainers and managers how to motivate and inspire people to build greater resilience to pressure....

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The Human Quest for Meaning

The first edition of The Human Quest for Meaning was a major publication on the empirical research of meaning in life and its vital role in well-being, resilience, and psychotherapy. This new edition continues that quest and seeks to answer the questions, what is the meaning of life?...

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MasterClass: Creating Resilient Minds

This MasterClass will empower you to be a charismatic leader in the lives of your clients. Dr. Robert Brooks has been working in this field and researching methods to increase resilience for over 40 years. This  MasterClass puts his extensive work together in one easily accessible location....

Stressful life events and predictors of post-traumatic growth among high-risk early emerging adults

Stressful life events (SLEs) may elicit positive psychosocial change among youth, referred to as post-traumatic growth (PTG). We assessed types of SLEs experienced, degree to which participants reported PTG, and variables predicting PTG across 24 months among a sample of high-risk, ethnically diverse, early emerging adults....

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A force of change: Chris Peterson and the US Army’s Global Assessment Tool

The US Army launched the Global Assessment Tool (GAT) – a 105-item psychometric instrument taken by approximately one million soldiers annually – in October, 2009 in support of a population-wide resilience development initiative known as the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness (CSF2) program....

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