Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Susan Folkman, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco.

Reviews

"At the pinnacle of her career, Susan Folkman has gathered the most thorough and up-to-date information on stress, health, and coping that science has to offer. It reflects her signature attention to the complexities and scope of human responses to adversity, encompassing both negative and positive processes and outcomes. Scientists and practitioners alike will benefit from learning the latest research articulated by the leading scientists represented in this
volume."

Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D.
Kenan Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF STRESS, HEALTH, AND COPING is an outstanding collection of chapters authored by eminent figures in the field. Not only is the contributor list outstanding, the coverage of topics is also superb. This book is certain to become the go-to volume for people from wide-ranging disciplines who are interested in the topics of stress, coping, and health."

Charles S. Carver, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of Miami
"This is a superb book. Susan Folkman, one of the pioneers of stress and coping research, has assembled a rich collection of essays by the current leaders of the field. The chapters in this book provide a wonderful overview of the current state of the field, integrating sharp critical insights with the newest research developments into a single, well-organized volume that will serve as a valuable resource for researchers, theorists, students, educators, and
practitioners."

George A. Bonanno, Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Columbia University
"This excellent book is full of research findings that lay a solid foundation for this area of study. The authors not only talk about stress and coping processes, they also address intervention. It is must reading for anyone involved in health psychology." -- Cermak Health Services
"Folkman (emer., integrative medicine, Univ. of San Francisco) is a superb editor. This handbook includes chapters from highly regarded scholars of stress, coping, and health who apply their expertise to summarize past research, describe current trends, and outline future directions and applicationsEL This is a thorough, engaging volume. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- American Library
Association
"This is a comprehensive look at stress and coping, from both a developmental and social perspective, that also extensively discusses the assessment of coping processes and the effects of coping intervention. This excellent book is full of research findings that lay a solid foundation for this area of study. The authors not only talk about stress and coping processes, they also address intervention. It is must reading for anyone involved in health psychology.
92/100." -- Gary B Kaniuk, Psy.D., DOODY'S
"In her introduction to this excellent volume, Folkman describes two themes in the literature on psychological stress, namely, negative effects of stress on mental and physical health, and the maintenance of well-being and resilience in individuals confronting stress... This handbook amply demonstrates how both themes are on prominent display in the active and productive field of psychological stress science, whose leaders are well represented among the
outstanding cast of contributors to this book. It is especially effective in conveying recent progress regarding positive outcomes of stress... Folkman's volume highlights coping and positive stress outcomes
within a distinctly psychological perspective... and should find a place alongside these and other major stress volumes on the bookshelves of many students, researchers, and clinicians, where it will serve as an essential resource for understanding psychological responses to adversity." --Richard J. Contrada, review in PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY