Endorsements
Made for Resilience and Happiness is a handy book full of helpful information for those of us who are finding it difficult to cope with the tremendous stress of the Covid-19 pandemic. This book comes from the world's foremost authority on meaning-centered therapy. Written in a jargon-free way, it will guide you how to strengthen your fighting spirit in these hard times. A must-read and a must-share book.
Dr. Sandip Roy, medical doctor, psychology writer, happiness researcher. Founder of Happiness India Project
Uncomfortable that mainstream psychologists have not really addressed the existential issues catalyzed by Covid-19, Paul Wong has collected insights from his own work and from Viktor Frankl to show how and why we can flourish, despite the stress and fears of the pandemic. Made for Resilience and Happiness shows us that we can choose how we make sense of our struggles. We can choose to succumb to workplace anxieties, or we can choose a better way. In 16 chapters—covering responsibility, resilience, faith, purposeful living, mental toughness, and other lessons—the book is a practical guide to changing our lives with exercises and psychological tests. In my own work during the pandemic with those who suffer from addictions, I have used several of Dr. Wong’s therapeutic practices. I have seen clients transform from being victimized by the virus to learning about themselves and their relationships, transcending fear and worry, persevering when things seem hopeless, and living for a higher purpose.
Geoff Thompson, PhD Program Director, Sunshine Coast Health Center
In this little gem of an ebook, Dr. Wong shares a myriad of tools, interventions, measures and exercises grounded in positive psychology and existential thought. It'll be of help to anybody affected psychologically by the current Covid-19 pandemic as well as any psychological crisis that may bestow us in the future.
Yannick Jacob, Existential Coach, Positive Psychologist, Coach Trainer & Supervisor
The current crisis of COVID-19 poses a major challenge to our society and individuals. This book proposes a new way of living in the midst of difficulties. Without falling into the trap of utopian optimism, Dr. Wong confronts the harsh reality of the pandemics and challenges the readers to turn this difficult time into an opportunity for personal transformation.
José Manuel García-Montes, Professor, University of Almería, Almería, Spain
Dr. Paul T. P. Wong provides an important resource showing how we can develop our innate capabilities and coping skills to adapt well in the era of the pandemic, based on his expertise of meaning therapy and second wave positive psychology (PP 2.0). It is a very useful guide about resilience––full of important information for those who want to protect and foster mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19
Gökmen Arslan, Ph.D., Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey; Associate Editor: Journal of Positive School Psychology; Statistical Consultant: The Educational and Developmental Psychologist
This ebook by the eminent Dr Paul T.P. Wong is a comprehensive resource book. It is unique since it delves into the current pandemic crisis with the perspective of positive psychology 2.0, focussing on resilience, and meaning. He particularly emphasizes on changing our mindset about suffering so that we can flourish through meaning transformation and self-transcendence.
In this book, Dr Wong also shares many of the scales developed by him and his colleagues as well as numerous self-reflection exercises to help the readers understand themselves in deeper and better way.
I strongly recommend everyone across the globe to read this wonderful book and learn how even a crisis as difficult as this cannot defeat us and can help us grow beyond measure! Kudos to Dr. Wong for creating such an extraordinary and remarkable book!
Dr. Pooja V. Anand, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi, India
Paul Wong is a force to contend with, speaking powerfully to the need to flatten the mental health curve concerning the Covid-19 challenge, or any other such disruptive event in our lives. Throughout this book, he offers hope by showing how we can be stronger and better, if we practice the skills based on Viktor Frankl’s teachings and understand the role of resilience in flourishing through difficult times as individuals and in the culture.
I have watched Paul for over 40 years overcome the challenges of academia, discrimination and working with people in crisis, looking for hope. from his own rich experience, commitment to excellence and practitioner style, he has become the leading scholarly voice globally for the extension of Frankl's work for a new generation. He has championed the cause of Positive Psychology 2.0 and is pioneering the new science of flourishing through suffering.
His meaning-centered, and faith friendly, approach shows how suffering can be part of our development and take us to new heights of maturity as individuals. This book will be useful for the parent, the counselor, the coach or anyone frustrated by the lack of tools available for thinking through and processing these challenging days in which we live. I highly recommend you read it once quickly and then review it in short sections for further thought and application.
Ross Rains, Commercial Real Estate Specialist; Founder, Pathfinders ministries