Psychologie lidské odolnosti – Paulík Karel (2017)

Who wouldn't want to cope with life's demands without major problems and successfully overcome difficult and crisis situations? There are certainly various paths to achieve this, utilizing a multitude of more or less ingenious and complex guides and 'shortcuts'. One can approach it by mastering specific procedures suitable for certain situations, or delve deeper into the essence of stress phenomena and understand the fundamental connections, which will allow for creative derivation of suitable procedures for the given situation. Here, we offer you primarily the second option. The issue of coping with various life demands and adverse influences is a central theme in contemporary psychology. One of the basic conditions for human development and survival is effective adaptation to constantly changing conditions, which interact with the human individual and their environment. This applies both to individual development from conception to death (ontogeny) and to the development of humans as a species (phylogeny). Psychological resilience is related to a multitude of phenomena and circumstances. Therefore, this book addresses the factors of human coping with stress from a psychological perspective based on theoretical analysis and empirical research results. It focuses on both the more general contexts of human adaptation...