Handbook of resilience in children / edited by Sam Goldstein and Robert B. Brooks.
"A five-year-old child watched helplessly as his younger brother drowned. In the same year, glaucoma began to darken his world. His family was too poor to provide the medical help that might have saved his sight. His parents died during his teens. Eventually he found him self in a state instit...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
©2005.
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "A five-year-old child watched helplessly as his younger brother drowned. In the same year, glaucoma began to darken his world. His family was too poor to provide the medical help that might have saved his sight. His parents died during his teens. Eventually he found him self in a state institution for the blind. As an African American he was not permitted to access many activities within the institution, including music. Given the obstacles he faced, one would not have easily predicted that he would someday become a world renowned musician. This man's name was Ray Charles. His life story, similar to many other individuals who faced great emotional, physical, and environmental adversities exemplifies that some can and do survive and in fact thrive. Yet, many others who encounter similar patterns of problems struggle to transition successfully into their adult lives, often finding themselves adrift in poverty, despair, and psychiatric problems."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 416 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780306485725 0306485729 0306485710 9780306485718 6610816042 9786610816040 |