Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Human Strengths and Resilience
Grant J. Rich · 2017
76/100
👍 Worth It
A genuinely valuable edited volume that takes positive psychology out of its Western comfort zone and applies strength-based and post-traumatic growth frameworks to populations in Cambodia, Syria, Haiti, Armenia, and beyond — regions that most psychology texts treat as data sources rather than communities with their own resilience traditions. Graduate students and international mental health practitioners will find it highly recommended for good reason. The specialist academic framing keeps it from being useful to general readers.
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safety90
substance82
craft70
originality80
accuracy80
hype75
age-fit65
human-eye76
Penny’s verdict76
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