Between Stress and Hope From a Disease-Centered to a Health-Centered Perspective

Subjects:

• Psychology » Psychology (General)
• Health/Medicine » Health/Medicine (General)

Reviews:

• Researchers concerned with coping, optimism, and resilience might find this book of interest....Clinical psychologists or graduate students.
  —Choice May 2004

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