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The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks

The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks

Resiliency the ability to adapt to life's changes and crises is the key to a healthy, productive life. Unfortunately, it's all too easy to get bogged down by feelings of anger and helplessness. The Resiliency Advantage helps readers banish negative, self-defeating thoughts and break free from the roles of "victim" and "good child" while improving problem-solving skills, maintaining humor and optimism during rough times, and becoming both self-reliant and socially responsible. By mastering the five stages of development sustaining health, energy, and positive feelings; handling challenges; achieving positive self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-concept; honing the skills and attributes of highly resilient people; and developing a talent for serendipity readers learn to stand up to adversity, overcome obstacles, and meet life head on.

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Authors: Al Siebert PhD
Binding: Paperback; 225 pages
Publication Date: 1/11/07
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576753298
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Amazon.com^® Average Rating: (5.0)

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(5) An antidote to stress

For too long we have focused on stress, and the concepts of "risk" "safety" and "worry."

This book makes the great point that most humans are actually pretty resilient, and by and large they handle life's stresses pretty well. When you look at things this way round the person with "stress" usually turns out to have a temporary strain and to be otherwise managing well. If they can map over their abilities from other areas of their life they usually find they can find a way to handle their current strain.

If you want mental health it makes great sense to focus on how to build up your resilience rather than on the neurotic avoidance of stress.

This book is an excellent description of why resilience is so useful, and of ways to bolster it. I recommend it as an antidote for, and as a necessary balance to, concepts of stress.

(5) Al Siebert's _The_Resiliency_Advantage_

I intend to use this as reference material for my Master of Public Health project. The book is practice, incisive, and accessible.

(5) G. Lee Salmon, Executive Coach, Federal Consulting Group, Department of Treasury

As an executive coach I constantly work with executives who are under enormous stress and who often face radical change in their organizations. Being resilient is a key competency for their survival and success. I found Dr. Siebert's book to be an incredible resource and teach tool for my clients. It gives them a useful five element model to understand the key dimensions of resilience and offers practical strategies and practices to build their own resilience. I recommend this book to anyone under stress and wanting to be able to effectively manage changes that life brings. It has made me look at my own life and provides a checklist to assess my own resilience.

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