As a social work student I found this book helpful to enable me to understand what resilience is, and how to encurage it. It was not helpful for assignments though as I found the book badly laid out and hard to scan for theories etc. There is no index (which I find is becoming incresingly popular and increasingly iritating!!) which makes it hard to pick up to find something or to reference from. The book is made up of lots of bulletpoints, which makes it factual and to the point, no jib! This I thought was great as its full of valid points rather than where it came from etc, but again made it hard to search for particualar item as pages are similar looking.
I thing it is great for anyone who is in family and childcare, but not for essay writing.