There are many challenges to be faced in contemporary society including the stresses of everyday living in the technological age and changes in patterns of employment and family life. Depression is being experienced in epidemic proportions in many Western communities, and in particular amongst young people. The search for effective ways to reverse this trend has resulted in a significant shift in psychological approach from a focus on helplessness and pathology to a more positiveorientation that emphasises health and well-being. This volume brings together leading researchers in the field of stress and coping to consider ways in which coping research contributes to our understanding of how people in different sectors of life meet goals and challenges. It provides a synthesisof different but compatible theoretical models that have been developed in the field of stress and coping and provides a way forward beyond the traditional stress and coping paradigms The emergent model is able to be used to assess a wide range of issues in the stress and coping domain.Written to be accessible to students and researchers in social, educational, and health psychology, this will be a valuable and important addition to the literature.
Beyond Coping: Some Paradigms to Consider; Adult World; Tenacious Goal Pursuits and Striving towards Personal Growth: Proactive Coping; Proactive Coping and Quality of Life Management; Alone Together: Comparing Communal versus Individualistic Resiliency; Work Stress and Coping in Organisations: Progress and Prospects; Positive Psychology and Health: Situational Dependence and Personal Striving; Young Peoples Worlds; Meeting Challenges in a Classroom Context; Positive Emotions in Education; Adolescent Wellbeing: Building young peoples resources; Teaching Students How to Cope with Adversity; The Impact of Childhood on Adulthood; Success and Achievement: Factors contributing to positive outcomes; Concluding remarks: What it all means;
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