Books like Self-esteem across the lifespan by Mary H. Guindon

A groundbreaking guide to embracing vulnerability and courage.

Explore how embracing vulnerability, courage, compassion, and connection can lead to authentic self‑acceptance and wholehearted living.

The Six Pillars of Self‑Esteem offers six practical, action‑based practices that nurture confidence and psychological health in personal and professional life.

A book about self acceptance.

"Dr. Mruk has produced a highly readable new edition of his original scholarship on an often-misunderstood psychological construct - self-esteem. Mruk's view that self-esteem is a critically important influence on psychological adjustment and quality of life is now an accepted tenet in personality theory. Lack of self-esteem is frequently a precursor to depression, suicidal behavior, and other personality disorders. Nonetheless, the clinical diagnosis of self-esteem problems has lacked the basis of an overarching theory. Dr. Mruk's comprehensive analysis distills the literature on self-esteem into practical and reliable treatment methods for both clinicians and researchers."--BOOK JACKET.

This text sheds light on how people work - why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows: how these patterns originate in people's self-theories; their consequences for the person - for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations; and the experiences that create them. Throughout, Dweck shows how examining self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development. This text is a must-read for researchers in social psychology, child development, and education, and is appropriate for both graduate and senior undergraduate students in these areas.

Shame and the Origins of Self‑Esteem explores how early childhood experiences shape self‑worth and create vulnerability to shame, drawing on Jungian theory and modern developmental research.