Positive Relationships: Evidence Based Practice across the World

✍ Scribed by Sue Roffey (auth.), Sue Roffey (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Relationships are at the heart of our lives; at home with our families, with our friends, in schools and colleges, with colleagues at the workplace and in our diverse communities. The quality of these relationships determines our individual well-being, how well we learn, develop and function, our sense of connectedness with others and the health so society. This unique volume brings together authorities from across the world to write about how relationships might be enhanced in all these different areas of our lives. It also explores how to address the challenges involved in establishing and maintaining positive relationships. This evidence-based book, primarily grounded in the science of positive psychology, is valuable for academics, especially psychologists and professionals, working in the field of well-being.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction to Positive Relationships: Evidence-Based Practice Across the World....Pages 1-15
Wellbeing and Resilience in Young People and the Role of Positive Relationships....Pages 17-33
Peaceful and Compassionate Futures: Positive Relationships as an Antidote to Violence....Pages 35-53
Learning About Relationships....Pages 55-72
Positive Couple Relationships: The Evidence for Long-Lasting Relationship Satisfaction and Happiness....Pages 73-89
Positive Parent–Child Relationships....Pages 91-107
Promoting Positive Outcomes for Children Experiencing Change in Family Relationships....Pages 109-126
Friendships: The Power of Positive Alliance....Pages 127-143
Developing Positive Relationships in Schools....Pages 145-162
Positive Relationships at Work....Pages 163-180
Positive Professional Relationships....Pages 181-196
Positive Mentoring Relationships: Nurturing Potential....Pages 197-214
Spirited Leadership: Growing Leaders for the Future....Pages 215-226
Positive Community Relations: Border Crossings and Repositioning the ‘Other’....Pages 227-243
Positive Relations Between Members of Groups with Divergent Beliefs and Cultures....Pages 245-259
Conflict and Confrontation....Pages 261-276
The Repair and Restoration of Relationships....Pages 277-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-297

✦ Subjects

Community and Environmental Psychology; Quality of Life Research; Child and School Psychology; Psychology, general; Industrial and Organisational Psychology