REBECCA JACOBY is currently head of the Medical Psychology graduate program at the Tel-Aviv Yaffo Academic College and chair of the professional committee of Medical Psychology at the Israel Ministry of Health.GIORA KEINAN is Associate Professor of Psychology at Tel-Aviv University and at one time served as Chief Psychologist for the Israel Navy, as well as Senior Researcher and Director for the Wolfe Center for the Study of Psychological Stress at the University of Haifa.

• List of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments Theoretical Underpinning of Stress and Hope Between Stress and Hope: A Historical Perspective by Rebecca Jacoby Dispositional Optimism as a Moderator of the Impact of Health Threats on Coping and Well Being by Jenifer L. Culver, Charles S. Carver, and Michael F. Scheier The Hopeful Ones: A Psychological Inquiry Into the Positive Mind and Heart by C. R. Snyder, Laura Yamhure Thompson, Hal S. Shorey, and Laura Heinze Fact or Artifact: The Relationship of Hope to a Caravan of Resources by Stevan E. Hobfoll, Melissa Briggs-Phillips, and Lisa R. Stines The Dominance of Fear Over Hope: Can It Be Changed? by Maria Jarymowicz and Daniel Bar-Tal Magical Thinking as a Way of Coping with Stress by Giora Keinan Threat and Hope in Coping with Stressful Life Experiences Hope and Fantasy Among Women Coping Infertility and Its Treatments by Yael Benyamini Hope and Recovery: The Experience of Prisoners of War During the Attrition War by Amia Lieblich Threat and Hope in Coping with Cancer for Health Care Professionals by Ronna F. Jevne and Cheryl L. Nekolaichuk Vulnerability and Resilience Intertwined: A Review of Research on Holocaust Survivors by Dov Shmotkin African Americans' Hope and Coping with Racism Stressors by Virgil H. Adams III, Kevin L. Rand, Kristin Kahle, C. R. Snyder, Carla Berg, Elisa A. King, and Alicia Rodrigues-Hanley From Hopeless Future to Futureless Hope: Temporality Among the Aged by Haim Hazan Interventions Cultivating the Seeds of Hope by Albert Pesso The Never Ending Story: A Model for the "Work of Hope" by Rebecca Jacoby About the Contributors

REBECCA JACOBY is currently head of the Medical Psychology graduate program at the Tel-Aviv Yaffo Academic College and chair of the professional committee of Medical Psychology at the Israel Ministry of Health.GIORA KEINAN is Associate Professor of Psychology at Tel-Aviv University and at one time served as Chief Psychologist for the Israel Navy, as well as Senior Researcher and Director for the Wolfe Center for the Study of Psychological Stress at the University of Haifa.

• List of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments Theoretical Underpinning of Stress and Hope Between Stress and Hope: A Historical Perspective by Rebecca Jacoby Dispositional Optimism as a Moderator of the Impact of Health Threats on Coping and Well Being by Jenifer L. Culver, Charles S. Carver, and Michael F. Scheier The Hopeful Ones: A Psychological Inquiry Into the Positive Mind and Heart by C. R. Snyder, Laura Yamhure Thompson, Hal S. Shorey, and Laura Heinze Fact or Artifact: The Relationship of Hope to a Caravan of Resources by Stevan E. Hobfoll, Melissa Briggs-Phillips, and Lisa R. Stines The Dominance of Fear Over Hope: Can It Be Changed? by Maria Jarymowicz and Daniel Bar-Tal Magical Thinking as a Way of Coping with Stress by Giora Keinan Threat and Hope in Coping with Stressful Life Experiences Hope and Fantasy Among Women Coping Infertility and Its Treatments by Yael Benyamini Hope and Recovery: The Experience of Prisoners of War During the Attrition War by Amia Lieblich Threat and Hope in Coping with Cancer for Health Care Professionals by Ronna F. Jevne and Cheryl L. Nekolaichuk Vulnerability and Resilience Intertwined: A Review of Research on Holocaust Survivors by Dov Shmotkin African Americans' Hope and Coping with Racism Stressors by Virgil H. Adams III, Kevin L. Rand, Kristin Kahle, C. R. Snyder, Carla Berg, Elisa A. King, and Alicia Rodrigues-Hanley From Hopeless Future to Futureless Hope: Temporality Among the Aged by Haim Hazan Interventions Cultivating the Seeds of Hope by Albert Pesso The Never Ending Story: A Model for the "Work of Hope" by Rebecca Jacoby About the Contributors

REBECCA JACOBY is currently head of the Medical Psychology graduate program at the Tel-Aviv Yaffo Academic College and chair of the professional committee of Medical Psychology at the Israel Ministry of Health.GIORA KEINAN is Associate Professor of Psychology at Tel-Aviv University and at one time served as Chief Psychologist for the Israel Navy, as well as Senior Researcher and Director for the Wolfe Center for the Study of Psychological Stress at the University of Haifa.

• List of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments Theoretical Underpinning of Stress and Hope Between Stress and Hope: A Historical Perspective by Rebecca Jacoby Dispositional Optimism as a Moderator of the Impact of Health Threats on Coping and Well Being by Jenifer L. Culver, Charles S. Carver, and Michael F. Scheier The Hopeful Ones: A Psychological Inquiry Into the Positive Mind and Heart by C. R. Snyder, Laura Yamhure Thompson, Hal S. Shorey, and Laura Heinze Fact or Artifact: The Relationship of Hope to a Caravan of Resources by Stevan E. Hobfoll, Melissa Briggs-Phillips, and Lisa R. Stines The Dominance of Fear Over Hope: Can It Be Changed? by Maria Jarymowicz and Daniel Bar-Tal Magical Thinking as a Way of Coping with Stress by Giora Keinan Threat and Hope in Coping with Stressful Life Experiences Hope and Fantasy Among Women Coping Infertility and Its Treatments by Yael Benyamini Hope and Recovery: The Experience of Prisoners of War During the Attrition War by Amia Lieblich Threat and Hope in Coping with Cancer for Health Care Professionals by Ronna F. Jevne and Cheryl L. Nekolaichuk Vulnerability and Resilience Intertwined: A Review of Research on Holocaust Survivors by Dov Shmotkin African Americans' Hope and Coping with Racism Stressors by Virgil H. Adams III, Kevin L. Rand, Kristin Kahle, C. R. Snyder, Carla Berg, Elisa A. King, and Alicia Rodrigues-Hanley From Hopeless Future to Futureless Hope: Temporality Among the Aged by Haim Hazan Interventions Cultivating the Seeds of Hope by Albert Pesso The Never Ending Story: A Model for the "Work of Hope" by Rebecca Jacoby About the Contributors