Coping with Life Crises An Integrated Approach

This book examines new developments in the area of human competence and coping behavior. It sets forth a conceptual framework that considers the interplay between environmental contexts and personal resources and their impact on how indi­ viduals cope wit

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The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping Series Editor:

Donald Meichenbaum, Editorial Board:

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Columbia University Marianne Frankenhaeuser, University of Stockholm Norman Garmezy, University of Minnesota Mardi J. Horowitz, University of California Medical School, San Francisco Richard S. Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley Michael Rutter, University of London Dennis C. Turk, University of Pittsburgh Camille Wortman, University of Michigan

COPING WITH LIFE CRISIS An Integrated Approach Edited by Rudolf H. Moos

Forthcoming DYNAMICS OF STRESS Physiological, Psychological, and Social Perspectives Edited by Mortimer H. Appley and Richard A. Trumbull

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COPING WITH LIFE CRISES An Integrated Approach

Edited by

Rudolf H. Moos

Stanfard University and Veterans Administration Medical Center Pala Alto, California

In collaboration with

Jeanne A. Schaefer

SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Coping with life crises. Includes bibliographical references and index. /. Adjustment (Psychology). 2. Life change events. 3. Stress (Psychology). 4. Developmental psychology. 1. Moos, Rudolf H., 1934. H. Schaefer, Jeanne A. BF335.C59 1986 155 85-28149 ISBN 978-0-306-42144-0 ISBN 978-1-4684-7021-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4684-7021-5

First Printing-February 1986 Second Printing- August 1987

© 1986 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1986 All rights reserved No part of this book may be rcproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from thc Publisher

Contributors David Balk, Ph.D., Director of Program Evaluation, La Frontera Center, Tucson, Arizona Allan Beigel, M.D., Director, Southern Arizona Mental Health Center, Tucson, Arizona Michael R. Berren, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation, Southern Arizona Mental Health Center, Tucson, Arizona Lesley Bradbury, Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia Leland P. Bradford, deceased, a founder and former director of the National Training Laboratory, Arlington, Virginia Kathleen B. Bryer, M.F.T., West End Medical Center, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Ann Wolbert Burgess, R.N., D.N.Sc., Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Paul Chodoff, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Eve K.Brown Crandall, R.N., M.S., M.N., School of Nursing, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas Andre P. Derdeyn, M.D., Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia Esther Elizur, Ph.D., Senior Research Associat