Book contents
- Reviews
- Resilience
- Resılience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What Is Resilience?
- 2 Optimism Belief in a Brighter Future
- 3 Face Your Fears
- 4 Moral Compass
- 5 Religion and Spirituality
- 6 Social Support
- 7 Role Models
- 8 Mind Your Body
- 9 Challenge Your Mind
- 10 Cognitive and Emotional Flexibility
- 11 Meaning, Purpose, and Growth
- 12 The Practice of Resilience
- Resilience Facing Death: A Tribute to Dr. Steven M. Southwick
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index
Resilience Facing Death: A Tribute to Dr. Steven M. Southwick
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2023
- Reviews
- Resilience
- Resılience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What Is Resilience?
- 2 Optimism Belief in a Brighter Future
- 3 Face Your Fears
- 4 Moral Compass
- 5 Religion and Spirituality
- 6 Social Support
- 7 Role Models
- 8 Mind Your Body
- 9 Challenge Your Mind
- 10 Cognitive and Emotional Flexibility
- 11 Meaning, Purpose, and Growth
- 12 The Practice of Resilience
- Resilience Facing Death: A Tribute to Dr. Steven M. Southwick
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index
Summary
Our friend, colleague, and coauthor Dr. Steven Southwick passed away on April 20, 2022. In this epilogue devoted to his memory, we share Dr. Southwick's writings in the last months of his life focused on how he lived the very resilience factors that he spent decades studying. Steve's friends, family, and treating physicians share the impact he had on them as he connected to love and friendship, meaning, physical activity, and cognitive flexibility. In closing the chapter Dr. Southwick says of resilience: “Do the best you can with what you've got.
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- ResilienceThe Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges, pp. 229 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023