Description
Book Synopsis...how a man rallies to life''s challenges and weathers its storms tells everything of who he is and all that he is likely to become. St. Augustine
It has long been understood that how a person adjusts to life stresses is a major component of his or her ability to lead a fulfilling life. Yet it wasn''t until the 1960s that coping became a discrete topic of psychological inquiry. Since then, coping has risen to a position of prominence in the modern psychological discourseespecially within the personality, cognitive, and behavioral spheresand, within the past decade alone, many important discoveries have been made about its mechanisms and functioning, and its role in ongoing psychological and physical health and well-being.
A book whose time has come at last, the Handbook of Coping is the first professional reference devoted exclusively to the psychology of coping. Reporting the observations and insights of nearly sixty leading authorities in stress and coping from a wide ran
Table of Contents
Partial table of contents:
CONCEPTUAL ISSUES.
Coping and Defense: A Historical Overview (J. Parker & N.Endler).
Personality and Coping: A Reconceptualization (P. Costa, etal.).
ASSESSMENT AND RESEARCH METHODS.
The Interplay Among Design, Data Analysis, and Theory in theMeasurement of Coping (J. Benson & K. Hagtvet).
An Approach to Assessing Daily Coping (L. Porter & A.Stone).
FACETS OF COPING.
Coping in Occupational Settings (S. Cartwright & C.Cooper).
Coping with Chronic Pain (J. Katz, et al.).
Coping with Multiple Stressors in the Environment (S. Lepore &G. Evans).
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES.
Individual Differences in Coping (H. Krohne).
Age Differences, Coping, and the Adult Life Span (S. Strack &H. Feifel).
CLINICAL PARAMETERS: ADAPTIVE COPING AND INTERVENTIONS.
Adaptative and Maladaptative Coping (M. Zeidner & D.Saklofske).
Facilitating Coping with Chronic Physical Illness (G. Devins &Y. Binik).
Indexes.
