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Handbook of Coping: Theory, Research, Applications

ISBN: 978-0-471-59946-3

November 1995

752 pages

Description
This comprehensive volume provides an up-to-date review of both research and clinical data about how people cope. It covers issues like individual differences in coping, personality variables in adjustment, and acute chronic stressors (such as personal crisis, victimization, developmental transitions, occupational pressures, illness, natural disasters, etc.) The book also offers clinicians practical strategies for helping clients learn to cope better.
About the Author
MOSHE ZEIDNER, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University ofHaifa School of Education, Israel. He also has faculty appointmentsat Stanford University and California State University at San Jose,and a visiting fellowship at Oxford University. His other booksinclude Psychological Testing: An Inside View and InternationalHandbook of Personality and Intelligence.

NORMAN S. ENDLER, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at YorkUniversity, Ontario. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,the American Psychological Association, and the CanadianPsychological Association. His other books include the two-volumePersonality and the Behavior Disorders (coedited with J. M. Hunt),Holiday of Darkness, and Depression: New Directions in Theory,Research, and Practice.