The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience runs 9.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Paul Costanzo (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.9 hours, it runs longer than 82% of the 8,456 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Paul Costanzo
Paul Costanzo narrates 60 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 662 hours in all.
About as long, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf
1,057 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience is an audiobook by Martin E.P. Seligman: a 9.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Paul Costanzo, released December 20, 2016, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Paul Costanzo
- Released
- December 20, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mental Health & Psychology
- ISBN
- 9781515986294
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How long is The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience as an audiobook?
The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience runs 9.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.
Is The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience?
The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience is narrated by Paul Costanzo.