Highlights the complexities of treating eating disorders and provides a theoretical framework for identification, diagnosis, and treatment of anorexia and bulimia. (Author)

Smokers who had received smoking cessation treatment of rapid smoking and behavioral counseling were assigned to one of two maintenance treatments. Treatments included coping-response and Pavlovian-exposure training. One added massed exposure to cigarettes, the other added nonmaintenance control condition. Both forms of maintenance reduced relapse…

Surgery patients (N=24) were randomly assigned either to a stress inoculation intervention or to a standard hospital instructions control. The results demonstrated the utility of stress inoculation training in providing surgical patients with a self-regulation technique to reduce their experiences of anxiety and pain and to improve their…

Responses of 218 urban husbands and wives and 202 rural husbands and wives were used to test the hypotheses that these two populations would use different coping strategies to deal with the stressors they faced in their different environments and that women would use different strategies than men. Neither hypothesis was supported. (Author/BL)

Describes a job maintenance training program, Vocational Coping Training (VCT), a small-group employability intervention combining cognitive and behavioral strategies to assess and enhance work establishment skills. (Author/BL)

Guidelines are offered for helping deaf children understand and cope with death. Implications for children under 3 to 10 and over are noted. Counseling suggestions are listed for helping bereaved children. (CL)

A music therapist describes a learning packet designed to teach elementary students to deal with anger. The package included 10 lessons using visual art, dance, music, and drama. (CL)

Examined the relationship between locus of control and psychological disorder in chronic pain patients (N=59) through administration of Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Results suggested that both anxiety and a response set affect this population's rating of ability to control…

Investigated burnout levels and coping strategies of 162 superintendents of public residential facilities for mentally retarded persons. Results indicated that mean overall burnout scores tended to be lower than those reported for other human service employees. Superintendents tended to favor direct/active strategies for coping with stressors.…

Similarities and differences between two cry clinics in Canada and New Zealand are offered, an example of a typical first session is provided, and some current issues are raised. (Author/KS)

Investigated the effectiveness of two thought-based treatments on phobic beliefs in a study of 20 college women who indicated a fear of snakes. Results confirmed that the longer individuals thought in the presence of reality constraints (snake in a glass cage), the more strongly they believed they could cope. (JAC)

Suggests that women in their fifties are susceptible to many stresses. The possibilities of widowhood, divorce, or poverty, combined with intra- and interpersonal strains, make this a time of insecurity about aging for many women. Some suggestions as to why women nonetheless cope successfully with aging are considered. (Author/JAC)

This paper presents the results of a study that investigated challenges institutional researchers encounter in their careers, resources for coping with these challenges, and the impact of the challenges on engagement in policy. Data were from a mailed survey sent to 304 institutional researchers in the northeastern United States to which 221…

The Coping Scale for Adults (CSA) has been developed as an instrument to be used by teachers, administrators, parents, and adults in general to assist them to develop their coping resources. This paper reports on the validity and utility of this instrument. Five studies using the CSA (E. Frydenberg and R. Lewis, 1997) found significant…

By highlighting the dreadful and avoiding the droll, nonfiction presents an unbalanced picture of the world and deprives readers of the benefits humor could contribute. Humor is needed in literature because it ventilates or disrupts oppressive conditions, it provides a different lens from which to view reality, and it provides hope, pleasure, and…