Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping

Foreword by Walter J. Lonner. Topics include: collectivistic coping; coping with suffering from the Buddhist perspective; the way of nature as a healing power; religious and spiritual coping; personality systems and a biosocioexistential model of posttraumatic responses based on a Korean sample; methodological issues in cross-cultural stress research; effects of acculturative stress on the Hispanic family; coping with domestic violence by Japanese Canadian women; how visible minority students cope with supervision stress; Vietnamese refugee women; Asian Americans; Lazarus and Folkman's model; grief and frustration of many communities in the Middle East; adjustment and coping in Aboriginal people; work-related and occupational stress; etc. Author and subject index.