Adolescent Coping: Promoting Resilience and Well-Being

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How do young people cope with the multitude of difficult situations and scenarios that are associated with growing up, like anxiety and depression, as well as illness, rejection and family breakdown? How can we facilitate and encourage, through a combination of health, well-being and positive mindset, healthy development during adolescence and beyond? With a substantial focus on the positive aspects of coping, including an emphasis on developing resilience and the achievement of happiness, Erica Frydenberg presents the latest developments in the field of coping. Adolescent Coping highlights the ways in which coping can be measured and implemented in a wide range of circumstances and contexts, with suggestions for the development of coping skills and coping skills training, and it provides strong scholarly evidence for the concepts and constructs that it promotes as providing a pathway to resilience. The work is framed as an ongoing interaction between individuals and their environments as represented by the psychosocial ecological model of Bronfenbrenner. The major theories of coping are articulated that take account of the transactional model, resources theories and proactive models of coping. Areas of recent interest such as neuroscience and epigenetics are included, alongside a new chapter, ‘Cyberworld’, which provides insights on new and relevant topics such as mindfulness and the impact of social media as they relate to coping in the contemporary context. Adolescent Coping will be of interest to practitioners in psychology, social work, sociology, education and youth and community work as well as to students on courses in adolescent development in these fields. Cover Page Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Reference Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Chapter 1: Positive psychology and related constructs 1.1 The socio-ecologicalmodel 1.2 Positive psychology 1.2.1 Happiness 1.3 Well-being 1.4 Resilience 1.5 Grit 1.6 Emotional intelligence 1.7 Summary remarks Notes References Chapter 2: What is coping? 2.1 Early approaches 2.2 Theoretical understandings 2.3 Defining coping 2.3.1 The role of appraisal 2.4 Resource theories of coping 2.4.1 Resource loss and gain spirals 2.5 Communal coping 2.6 Proactive coping 2.6.1 Proactive coping in education 2.7 Some theoretical issues 2.8 Summary comments References Chapter 3: The measurement of coping 3.1 Reviews of coping 3.2 The ACS and the CSA 3.3 The short form of the ACS 3.4 Measuring effectiveness 3.5 Concluding remarks References Chapter 4: Coping: What we have learned 4.1 Age and gender 4.2 Cross-cultural studies 4.3 Coping resources 4.4 Problem solving and coping 4.5 Well-beingand coping 4.6 Bullying 4.7 Proactive coping 4.8 Refugee adolescents and their coping 4.9 Special groups of young people 4.9.1 Type 1 diabetes 4.9.2 Autism spectrum disorder 4.10 Summary remarks References Chapter 5: Family coping: Culture and context 5.1 Development and the family 5.2 The ideal family 5.3 Family patterns of coping 5.3.1 Overall comparisons of parent and child coping 5.3.2 Differences between fathers and sons, and mothers andd aughters 5.3.3 Similarities between parent and child coping responses 5.3.4 Differences of coping styles between fathers and sons 5.3.5 Differences of coping styles between mothers and daughters 5.4 Some issues to consider 5.4.1 Parental mental health 5.4.2 Siblings of adolescents with special needs 5.4.3 Family climate 5.5 Concluding remarks Note References Chapter 6: Well-beingand resilience 6.1 Well-being 6.2 Relationship between well-being and coping 6.3 School connectedness 6.4 School belonging 6.5 Academic coping 6.6 Mindset 6.7 Summary remarks References Chapter 7: An intersect: Ecology, neuroscience and epigenetics 7.1 The ecological approach 7.2 The adolescent brain 7.3 The social brain 7.4 Epigenetics 7.5 Mindsight 7.6 Resilience and culture 7.7 Concluding remarks Note References Chapter 8: Anxiety, depression and other related conditions 8.1 Anxiety 8.2 Self-esteemand anxiety 8.3 Anxiety sensitivity 8.4 Parenting style 8.5 Depression 8.6 Coping and depression 8.7 Suicide 8.8 Breaking the cycle 8.9 Prevention of adolescent depression through programs of instruction 8.10 The relationship between depression, stress and coping 8.10.1 Gender differences 8.11 Rumination 8.12 Self-harm 8.13 Summary remarks Note References Chapter 9: Coping with diverse conditions 9.1 Eating disorders 9.1.1 Anorexia nervosa 9.1.2 Bulimia nervosa 9.1.3 Binge eating disorder 9.1.4 Prevention 9.2 Coping with boredom 9.3 Loneliness and coping 9.4 Chronic illness 9.5 Concluding remarks Notes References Chapter 10: Adolescent risk 10.1 Transition 10.2 Risk factors 10.2.1 Parental separation and divorce 10.2.2 The impact of individual characteristics 10.2.3 The impact of poverty 10.2.4 Peer influence 10.2.5 Impact of war 10.3 Protective factors 10.4 Adolescent risk-taking 10.5 Coping with stress 10.6 Concluding remarks Notes References Chapter 11: Learning to cope 11.1 Coping resources 11.2 Using the adolescent coping scale for interventions 11.2.1 Identifying and using productive strategies 11.2.2 Understanding links to mental health issues 11.2.3 Maintaining well-beingin an educational context 11.3 Coping programmes 11.3.1 Study 1 11.3.2 Study 2 11.3.3 Study 3 11.3.4 Coping for success 11.3.5 Low resourced adolescence 11.3.6 Young people with diabetes 11.4 A clinical case example using the ACS-2 11.4.1 Jason’s coping profile 11.5 Mindfulness and compassion training 11.5.1 What is mindfulness? 11.5.2 Cultivating mindfulness attitudes 11.6 Concluding remarks Notes References Chapter 12: Technology and social media: The good and the bad 12.1 Opportunities and benefits 12.1.1 Educational outcomes 12.1.2 Supportive relationships 12.1.3 Identity formation 12.1.4 Sense of belonging and self-esteem 12.2 Challenges and risks 12.2.1 Cyberbullying 12.2.2 Sexting 12.2.3 Internet addiction 12.3 Risk-coping behaviours and digital resilience 12.4 Concluding remarks References Chapter 13: Final thoughts References Index