Books for Adults


The following selection of reader-friendly books provides a good start for learning more about promoting resilience in ourselves and the children around us. For more comprehensive resources on resilience, please visit ResilienceNet at www.resilnet.uiuc.edu.

The Resilience Factor
Karen Reivich & Andrew Shatté. 2002. New York: Broadway Books.
This highly recommended book presents a more in-depth discussion of the resiliency skills presented in RIRO skills training.
(Book can be purchased at Amazon.com)

The Optimistic Child
Martin Seligman, Karen Reivich, Lisa Jaycox, & Jane Gillham. 1995. New York: Houghton Mifflin. A world-renowned researcher and his colleagues discuss ways we can support children's optimism and resilience.
(Book can be purchased at Amazon.com)

Learned Optimism
Martin Seligman. 1990. New York: Pocket Books.
The author presents an engaging description of the early research on learned helplessness and its evolution into ways we can promote an optimistic explanatory style and support resilience.
(Book can be purchased at Amazon.com)

The Optimistic Classroom
Deborah Hewitt & Sandra Heidemann. 1998. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press.
The authors provide many creative ways to give children hope and promote their resilience.
(Book can be purchased at Amazon.com)

Raising Resilient Children
Robert Brooks & Sam Goldstein. 2001. New York: McGraw-Hill.
A popular book for parents about promoting resilience by fostering strength, hope and optimism in children.
(Book can be purchased at Amazon.com)

The Bounce Back Book: Birth to 2 Years
The Bounce Back Book: Building Resiliency Skills in Your Preschooler
Alberta Mental Health Board. 2008. Edmonton: AMHB.
These two reader-friendly resources give parents and other caregivers strategies to promote resilience in their babies and young children.
(Books can be downloaded or ordered here)

Resilience: Overcoming Challenges and Moving on Positively
Marja Korhonen. 2007. Ottawa: National Aboriginal Health Organization.
This resource interlaces insightful stories from aboriginal people in the north with research on resilience.
(Book can be ordered through: inuit@naho.ca)

Growing Up Resilient
Tatyana Barankin & Nazilla Khanlou. 2007. Toronto: Centre for Addiction & Mental Health.
The authors draw from the latest research and theoretical developments on resilience in children and youth and present it in a way that is relevant for professionals and parents.
(Book can be ordered at: store.camh.net, product code P5601)

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