Human Resilience: A Fifty Year Quest

by Ann M. Clarke, Alan D.B. Clarke

Tackling some of the most important ideas in child psychology and human development, Human Resilience presents key theories from Ann and Alan Clarke's pioneering work in this field. The Clarkes discuss major interacting influences on development, including genetic and environmental effects, chance events and the tendency for people to influence their environments in ways that reinforce their personal characteristics. In particular, they address various issues surrounding IQ inheritance and outline factors affecting the success of several intervention programmes, including fostering and adoption. The emerging importance of resilience as a fundamental human characteristic makes this book of great significance to psychologists, social workers and students. Anyone working with disadvantaged children and those with learning disabilities will be interested in Human Resilience's practical how resilience can be improved both by personal characteristics such as self-esteem, problem-solving ability or sociability, interacting with external support.

432 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2003

About the author

Ann Margaret Clarke.