Few publications have changed the landscape of contemporary psychology more than Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman's landmark work, Stress, Appraisal, and Coping. Its publication in 1984 set the course for years of research on the dynamic processes of psychological stress and coping in human beings.
Now more than a quarter-century later, The Oxford Handbook of Stress, Health, and Coping pushes the field even further with a comprehensive overview of the newest and best work in this dynamic subject. Edited by Susan Folkman and comprising chapters by the field's leading scientists, this new volume details the expanded knowledge base that has emerged from extensive research on stress and coping processes over the last several decades.
Featuring 22 topic-based chapters -- including two by Folkman -- this volume offers unprecedented coverage of the two primary research topics related to stress and coping: mitigating stress-related harms and sustaining well-being in the face of stress. Both topics are addressed within their relevant contexts, including chronic illness, calamity, bereavement, and social hardship.
The Oxford Handbook of Stress, Health, and Coping is an essential reference work for students, practitioners, and researchers across the fields of health psychology, medicine, and palliative care.
Part One: Overview and Introduction
1. Stress, Health, and Coping: An Overview
Susan Folkman
Part Two: Developmental Perspectives on Stress and Coping
2. Stress and Coping across the Lifespan
Carolyn Aldwin
3. Perceived Control and the Development of Coping
Ellen A. Skinner and Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck
Part Three: Social Aspects of Stress and Coping
4. Gender, Stress, and Coping
Vicki S. Helgeson
5. Affiliation and Stress
Shelley E. Taylor
6. Couples Coping with Chronic Illness
Tracey A. Revenson and Anita DeLongis
Part Four: Models of Stress, Coping, and Positive and Negative Outcomes
7. Conservation of Resources Theory: Its Implication for Stress, Health, and Resilience
Stevan E. Hobfoll
8. Coping with Bereavement
Margaret S. Stroebe
9. Resilience: The Meanings, Methods, and Measures of a Fundamental Characteristic of Human Adaptation
Alex J. Zautra and John W. Reich
10. Positive Emotions, Coping, and Resilience
Michele M. Tugade
11. Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Part Five: Coping Processes and Positive and Negative Outcomes
12. Meaning, Coping, and Health and Well-Being
Crystal L. Park
13. Benefit Finding and Sense Making in Chronic Illness
Kenneth I. Pakenham
14. Religion and Coping: The Current State of Knowledge
Kenneth I. Pargament
15. Coping, Spirituality, and Health in HIV
Gail Ironson and Heidemarie Kremer
16. Self-Regulation of Unattainable Goals and Pathways to Quality of Life
Carsten Wrosch
17. Future-Oriented Thinking, Proactive Coping, and the Management of Potential Threats to Health and Well-Being
Lisa G. Aspinwall
Part Six: Assessing Coping: New Technologies and Concepts
18. Regulating Emotions during Stressful Experiences: The Adaptive Utility of Coping through Emotional Approach
Annette L. Stanton
19. The Dynamics of Stress, Coping, and Health: Assessing Stress and Coping Processes in Near Real Time
Mark D. Litt, Howard Tennen, and Glenn Affleck
Part Seven: Coping Interventions
20. Coping Interventions and the Regulation of Positive Affect
Judith Tedlie Moskowitz
21. Stress, Coping, and Health in HIV/AIDS
Michael H. Antoni
Part Eight: Conclusions and Future Directions
22. Stress, Health, and Coping: Synthesis, Commentary, and Future Directions
Susan Folkman
