Table of Contents

1: E Frydenberg: Beyond Coping: Some Paradigms to Consider
Adult World
2: Ralf Schwarzer and Steffen Taubert: Tenacious Goal Pursuits and Striving towards Personal Growth: Proactive Coping
3: Esther Greenglass: Proactive Coping and Quality of Life Management
4: Stevan E Hobfoll: Alone Together: Comparing Communal versus Individualistic Resiliency
5: Ronald J Burke: Work Stress and Coping in Organisations: Progress and Prospects
6: Kate Moore: Positive Psychology and Health: Situational Dependence and Personal Striving
Young People's Worlds
7: Monique Boekaerts: Meeting Challenges in a Classroom Context
8: Reinhard Pekrun, Thomas Goetz, Wolfram Titz & Raymond Perry: Positive Emotions in Education
9: Erica Frydenerg and Ramon Lewis: Adolescent Wellbeing: Building young people's resources
10: David Johnson and Roger Johnson: Teaching Students How to Cope with Adversity
The Impact of Childhood on Adulthood
11: Erica Frydenberg: Success and Achievement: Factors contributing to positive outcomes
12: Erica Frydenberg: Concluding remarks: What it all means

About the Author

Erica Frydenberg is currently Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Dr Frydenberg has previously held positions at the Prahran School Support Centre, working for the Minstry of Education and held various guidance officer positions within the Department of Education. She has published widely in journals and been involved in eight different publications concerned with child and adolescent coping, as Author,
Editor and contributor as well as designing course manuals She has been actively involved on course advisory committees, committees and groups for the Trust for Young Australians, and for the Australian Psychological
Society and her primary field of interest is how young and adolescent people cope with stress.

Reviews

"[P]rovide a good sense of where the post-Lazarus and Folkman study of stress and coping is heading. ... valuable for collections that focus on social, health, clinical, or educational psychology."--Choice