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Stressed Family, Strong Family is an e-book for:
stressed parents, exhausted teachers, and overloaded helping professionals.... for anyone who wants to focus more on strengths, strengths that help cope with problems in a child, teen, family, or classroom.

This book on stress and resilience comes to you over the Internet to your computer or hand-held device.
 
Just completed! Extensive excerpts from Stressed Family, Strong Family
are now available at AmericanConfusion.com. 
Visit that site to learn about strengths that help kids cope.
Check out a unique Kids' Quiz where kids tell adults about help they need.
Learn about the list of 130 common stress situations.
 
Table of Contents is at the bottom of this page
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: THE CIVITAN RESILIENCE IDEAS: “I HAVE, I AM, I CAN”   
      What a Resilient Child Ought to be Able to Say
      CIVITAN LIST OF TRAITS (with additional items and alternate wording)   
      WAYS TO SUPPORT THESE ABILITIES and help your child be better able to cope
with stress
      SUMMING UP

CHAPTER 2: SIX TYPES OF RESILIENCE
               MORE ABOUT PHYSICAL RESILIENCE AND COPING WITH CHANGES
                A. PHYSICAL RESILIENCE handling illness or accident               
                B. COPING WITH CHANGES such as moving, changing school grade

CHAPTER 3: THE REMAINING FOUR OF THE SIX RESILIENCE AREAS   
                 C. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE when coping with feelings of sadness or anger
                 D. ABILITY TO COPE WITH SCHOOL DISRUPTION
                 E. HANDLING THE LOSS OF IMPORTANT PEOPLE
                 F. SPIRITUAL, MORAL, OR ETHICAL ASPECTS OF RESILIENCE,
when a religious leader of strong faith can help

CHAPTER 4: HELP ME COPE! A QUIZ FOR YOUTH
       How People Recognize Stress and Do Something About it
       Hopes and Wishes You Have for Yourself and Your Family
       Changes You Want in Your Family, Class, or Yourself
       Hopes and Wishes You Have for Yourself and Your Family
       Changes You Want in Your Family, Class, or Yourself
       Suggestions for Parents and Other Adults

CHAPTER 5: HOW FAMILIES OR SCHOOL CLASSES COPE WITH A CRISIS
      Coping With Stresses and Crises
      How Families Cope with a Crisis

CHAPTER 6: REDUCE STRESS--RECYCLE YOUR FAMILY!
      POSITIVE CYCLES AND FAMILY STRENGTHS
      VICIOUS CYCLES IN MORE DETAI; getting free of nagging, blaming, arguing

CHAPTER 7: THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY (370) STRENGTHS
      YOUTHS’ ABILITIES AND COPING METHODS are important in coping 
      STRENGTHS AND STRESS; how to keep focus on strengths
when stress makes you forget your own abilities

                           List of 370 strengths in 14 different areas
1. DISCLOSES FEELINGS AND PROBLEMS
            HOW DISCLOSING HELPS, AND HOW TO SUPPORT IT
2. ACCEPTANCE OF SKILLFUL SUGGESTIONS, ADVICE, GUIDANCE
           HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM
3. RESPONSIBILITY, COOPERATION
          HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM
4. WARMTH, GENEROSITY, EMPATHY
         HOW THESE ABILITIES  HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM

5. ASSERTIVENESS, DRIVE, SELF-DEFENSE, SELF CONFIDENCE\
         HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM   

6. COPING WITH STRESS; OPTIMISM, SELF ESTEEM, HUMOR\
        HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM   

7. SELF CONTROL, MEDIATION AND COUNSELING SKILLS\
        HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM   

8. ABILITY, TALENT, SKILLS, INDEPENDENT LEARNING, and CREATIVITY\
        HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM   

9. SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, JUDGMENT\
        HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM   

10. LEADERSHIP, ATHLETIC INTERESTS & ABILITY\
        HOW  THESE  ABILITIES  HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT  THEM\

11. HEALTHY LIVING, ACCEPTANCE OF MEDICAL TREATMENT OR PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS, RECOVERY FROM TRAUMA\
       HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM   

12. SURVIVAL SKILLS, SAFETY, AND FIRST AID PRACTICES\
        HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM   

13. CONCERNS ABOUT: NATION, ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVING RESOURCES, SOCIAL JUSTICE
        HOW THESE ABILITIES HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT THEM   

14. SPIRITUAL OR ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT
        HOW THESE  ABILITIES  HELP, AND HOW TO SUPPORT  THEM

CHAPTER 8: ACUTE STRESS DISORDER AND POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
     WHY DISCUSS THESE SERIOUS CONDITIONS?
     NOT EVERYONE REACTS THE SAME WAY TO TRAUMA
     Why Do Some Kids Develop PTSD After Bad Events…But Others Don’t?   
     COPING WITH THE AFTER-EFFECTS
     OTHER IDEAS THAT MIGHT HELP IN A CRISIS OR AFTERWARDS   

APPENDIX
      WEB SITES, PAMPHLETS, BOOKS, INSTRUCTIONS, where you can find
additional help for problems and questions
 
EMERGENCY HELP

LIST OF BAD THINGS OR STRESSES, listing over 100 stress situations