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Between Stress and Hope From a Disease-Centered to a Health-Centered Perspective
Book Code: C7640
ISBN: 0-275-97640-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97640-8
360 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2003
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Researchers concerned with coping, optimism, and resilience might find this book of interest....Clinical psychologists or graduate students.
    —Choice
    May 2004
Description: Contributors to this edited collection are at the cutting edge of theory and research in the fields of stress and hope. Students and scholars studying health psychology, stress management or stress and coping will appreciate the information presented, as will those involved with medical science, nursing, and sociology.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Theoretical Underpinning of Stress and Hope
  • Between Stress and Hope: A Historical Perspective by Rebecca Jacoby
  • Dispositional Optimism as a Moderator of the Impact of Health Threats on Coping and Well Being by Jenifer L. Culver, Charles S. Carver, and Michael F. Scheier
  • The Hopeful Ones: A Psychological Inquiry Into the Positive Mind and Heart by C. R. Snyder, Laura Yamhure Thompson, Hal S. Shorey, and Laura Heinze
  • Fact or Artifact: The Relationship of Hope to a Caravan of Resources by Stevan E. Hobfoll, Melissa Briggs-Phillips, and Lisa R. Stines
  • The Dominance of Fear Over Hope: Can It Be Changed? by Maria Jarymowicz and Daniel Bar-Tal
  • Magical Thinking as a Way of Coping with Stress by Giora Keinan
  • Threat and Hope in Coping with Stressful Life Experiences
  • Hope and Fantasy Among Women Coping Infertility and Its Treatments by Yael Benyamini
  • Hope and Recovery: The Experience of Prisoners of War During the Attrition War by Amia Lieblich
  • Threat and Hope in Coping with Cancer for Health Care Professionals by Ronna F. Jevne and Cheryl L. Nekolaichuk
  • Vulnerability and Resilience Intertwined: A Review of Research on Holocaust Survivors by Dov Shmotkin
  • African Americans' Hope and Coping with Racism Stressors by Virgil H. Adams III, Kevin L. Rand, Kristin Kahle, C. R. Snyder, Carla Berg, Elisa A. King, and Alicia Rodrigues-Hanley
  • From Hopeless Future to Futureless Hope: Temporality Among the Aged by Haim Hazan
  • Interventions
  • Cultivating the Seeds of Hope by Albert Pesso
  • The Never Ending Story: A Model for the "Work of Hope" by Rebecca Jacoby
  • About the Contributors
LC Card Number: 2003042014
LCC Class: R726
Dewey Class: 155
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