Full Description
This is a companion volume to Coping: The Psychology of What Works, which is also edited by Snyder. This second book includes chapters by some of the most well known clinical and health psychologists and covers some of the newest and most provocative topics currently under study in the area of coping. The contributors address the key questions in this literature: Why do some of us learn from hardship and life's stressors? And why do others fail and succumb
to depression, anxiety, and even suicide? What are the adaptive patterns and behaviors of those who do well in spite of the obstacles that are thrown their way? The chapters will look at exercise as a way of
coping with stress, body imaging, the use of humor, forgiveness, control of hostile thoughts, ethnicity and coping, sexism and coping aging and relationships, constructing a coherent life story, personal spirituality, and personal growth.
Contents
Preface
1: C. R. Snyder and Kimberley Pulvers: Dr. Seuss, the Coping Machine, and "Oh the Places Will Can Go"
2: Joseph R. Ferrari: Getting Things Done on Time: Conquering Procrastination
3: Robert Neimeyer and Heidi Levitt: Coping and Coherence: a Narrative Perspective on Resilience
4: Herbert M. Lefcourt: The Humor Solution
5: Michael E. McCullough: Forgiving
6: Tom Pyszczynski et al.: Coping with the Inevitability of Death: Terror Management and Mismanagement
7: Redford B. Williams and Virginia P. Williams: Managing Hostile Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions: the Lifeskills Approach
8: Thomas Ashby Wills and James M. Sandy: Comparing Favorably: a Cognitive Approach to Coping through Comparison with Other Persons
9: Nancy A. Hamilton and Rick E. Ingram: Self-Focused Attention and Coping: Attending to the Right Things
10: Anita E. Kelly: Dealing with Secrets
11: Edward C. Chang: A Look at the Coping Strategies and Styles of Asian Americans: Similar and Different?
12: Gail Williamson and W. Keith Dooley: Aging and Coping: the Activity Solution
13: Kenneth I. Pargament, Margaret M. Poloma, and Nalini Tarakeshwar: Methods of Coping from the Religions of the World: Healing, Karma, and the Bar Mitzvah
14: C. R. Snyder and Kimberley Pulvers: Patterns of Coping
