The Oxford Handbook of Stress, Health, and Coping

Susan Folkman, Ph.D., is Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Peter E. Nathan is the University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology.

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