Resilience and Mental Health: Challenges Across the Lifespan

edited by Steven M. Southwick, M.D., HS ’85, Glenn H. Greenberg Professor of Psychiatry, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Resilience; Brett T. Litz, Ph.D.; Dennis Charney, M.D., HS ’81; and Matthew J. Friedman, Ph.D., M.D. (Cambridge University Press) This book brings together experts whose research has focused on adaptive responses to stress, which are less well understood than stress-related disorders. Each of the book’s five sections examines relevant concepts, ranging from factors that contribute to and promote resilience to specific applications and contexts of resilience, as well as interventions to enhance healthy adaptation to stress.