The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience

In The Optimistic Child Dr Martin E P Seligman offers parents teachers and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children In a thirty-year study Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism -- dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback -- and depression Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression achieve more on the playing field and at school and improve their physical healthAs Seligman states in his new afterword for this edition Teaching children optimism is more I realized than just correcting pessimism It is the creation of a positive strength a sunny but solid future-mindedness that can be deployed throughout life -- not only to fight depression and to come back from failure but also to be the foundation of success and vitality.