Coping

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.

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?