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Between Stress and Hope From a Disease-Centered to a Health-Centered Perspective
Rebecca Jacoby, Giora Keinan
ISBN: 0-275-97640-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97640-8
360 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2003
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)
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Description: This volume focuses on the concepts of stress and hope, their psychological and physical outcomes. Past research has focused primarily or exclusively on either stress or hope and its effect on health. This work discusses them side by side and highlights their interrelations. Various theoretical approaches dealing with stress and hope are discussed, and a review of the most recent empirical data is presented. Also included are reports on individuals and groups that have been exposed to various stressful situations, such as racial prejudice, life threatening illness, or imprisonment. The role of hope in coping with these sitatuions is emphasized.

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
About the Author: REBECCA JACOBY is currently head of the Medical Psychology graduate program at the Tel-Aviv Yaffo Academic College and chair of the professional committee of Medical Psychology at the Israel Ministry of Health.

GIORA KEINAN is Associate Professor of Psychology at Tel-Aviv University and at one time served as Chief Psychologist for the Israel Navy, as well as Senior Researcher and Director for the Wolfe Center for the Study of Psychological Stress at the University of Haifa.
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