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

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Author: Martin E. P. Seligman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 4229

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 1

ISBN: 0618918094
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.4124
EAN: 9780618918096
ASIN: 0618918094

Publication Date: September 17, 2007
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
In The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism -- dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback -- and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression, achieve more on the playing field and at school, and improve their physical health.

As Seligman states in his new afterword for this edition, "Teaching children optimism is more, I realized, than just correcting pessimism . . . It is the creation of a positive strength, a sunny but solid future-mindedness that can be deployed throughout life -- not only to fight depression and to come back from failure, but also to be the foundation of success and vitality."

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent book May 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I had read this author's book "Learned Optimism" which was oriented to adults. The Optimistic Child gives an emphasis to the parent-child relationship instead which is a great addition to his prior work. I found it a little more technical in its writing than the adult version, but not too difficult to read. I highly recommend it for parents trying to help their children to be positive and optimistic in life.