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Zusatztext I would recommend it to highly experienced professionals Klappentext Like health, the ability to cope often goes unappreciated until it's too late. This volume, breaking from the traditional focus on pathology, takes a preventative approach, focusing on new ways to improve people's ability to cope with mental stress. This award-winning research emphasizes the role of people as positive copers. The volume collects work by leading experts and includes new research. It explores a wide variety of topics, including reality negotiation, confessing through writing, emotional intelligence, optimism, hope, mastery-oriented thinking, and more. The book will be an invaluable resource for mental health professionals, as well as a useful guide for general readers. Zusammenfassung Most people take the process of coping for granted as they go about their daily activities. This volume builds on people's strengths, emphasizing their role as positive copers. It features techniques for preventing psychological problems, breaking from the traditional research approach. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: C.R. Snyder and Beth L. Dinoff: Coping: Where Have You Been? 2: Raymond L.Higgins and Ruth Q. Leibowitz: Reality Negotiation and Coping: The Social Construction of Silk Purses from Sows' Ears 3: Roy F. Baumeister, Jon E. Faber, and Harry M. Wallace: Coping and Ego Depletion 4: Joshua M. Smyth and James W. Pennebaker: Sharing One's Story: Translating Emotional Experiences into Words as a Coping Tool 5: Annette L. Stanton and Rob Franz: Focusing on Emotion: An Adaptive Coping Strategy 6: David Watson, James P. David, and Jerry Suls: Personality, Affectivity, and Coping 7: Peter Salovey, Brian T. Bedell, Jerusha B. Detweiler, and John D. Mayer: Coping Intelligently: Emotional Intelligence and the Coping Process 8: Andrew Shatté, Karen Reivich, Jane E. Gillham, and Martin E. P. Seligman: Learned Optimism in Children 9: Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier: Optimism 10: C. R. Snyder, Jen Cheavens, and Scott T. Michael: Hoping 11: Carol S. Dweck and Lisa A. Sorich: Mastery-Oriented Thinking 12: Christopher Peterson and Christina H. Moon: Coping with Catastrophes and Catastrophizing 13: Howard Tennen and Glenn Affleck: Finding Benefits in Adversity 14: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman: Rebuilding Shattered Assumptions After Traumatic Life Events: Coping Processes and Outcomes 15: C. R. Snyder: Coping: Where Are You Going? ...
