{"id":64979,"date":"2009-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/psychology-professors-book-provides-toolkit-to-build-hope-in-the-age-of-anxiety\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T00:00:00","slug":"psychology-professors-book-provides-toolkit-to-build-hope-in-the-age-of-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/09\/psychology-professors-book-provides-toolkit-to-build-hope-in-the-age-of-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology professors\u2019 book provides toolkit to build Hope in the Age of Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t\tKINGSTON, R.I.–September 16, 2009\u2014In these times of economic uncertainty, shrinking life savings, fears of global terrorism and technology-resistant germs, comes a book that offers hope.<\/p>\n


\n\tNot blind optimism, wishful thinking, or denial of reality, but a book that spans the \u201croots and wings\u201d of true hope. Hope in the Age of Anxiety, just released by Oxford University Press, is co-authored by two clinical psychologists, Professors Henry Biller of the 溏心vlog免费B站 and Anthony Scioli of Keene State College (University System of New Hampshire). Their message is simple: Hope matters! <\/p>\n


\n \t>So exactly what is hope? Poets suggest it is the \u201cthing with feathers that perches in the soul\u201d, a gift of the soul that \u201csprings eternal.\u201d President Barack Obama, author of The Audacity of Hope called it \u201cthe bedrock of the nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us.\u201d <\/p>\n



\n\tBiller, a Warwick resident, and Scioli, a former 溏心vlog免费B站 student (he earned his master\u2019s and doctoral degrees from 溏心vlog免费B站), call hope one of our most important virtues. \u201cHope is as essential to our well-being as the air we breathe,\u201d says Scioli who is also a member of the graduate faculty at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cAbiding in hope is the basis for achieving true success, crafting loving relationships, and securing a genuine sense of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe authors find current theories on hope narrow at best. The pair drew on their own clinical experiences as well as the best insights of philosophers, theologians, poets and scientists from a variety of fields, to develop a fresh perspective on the topic. <\/p>\n


\n\tTheir book offers \u201chope lessons\u201d and \u201chope tips.\u201d \u2022 How do you build and sustain hope in trying times? \u2022 What should you look for in a good \u201chope provider? \u2022 How can hope help you to achieve genuine success? \u2022 How does hope help you to heal and fight illness? \u2022How does hope relate to spirituality?<\/p>\n


\n\u2022 What is your spiritual type and which faith sources are you most likely to find meaningful? <\/p>\n


\n\tGrounded in science with practical tips, Hope in the Age of Anxiety focuses on four universal aspects of human experience that embody the essence of hope: attachment, mastery, survival, and spirituality. <\/p>\n


\n\tAttachment: Hope is crafted from your interpersonal connections to individuals, groups, or institutions. Trust and openness are vital for hope.<\/p>\n


\n\tMastery. Hope is about foreseeable goal attainment, feelings of empowerment, and achieving a life of purpose.<\/p>\n


\n\tSurvival: Hope encompasses a variety of \u201csurvival skills\u201d, including the capacity for healing and health maintenance as well as coping with trauma, loss, and other forms of adversity. <\/p>\n


\n\tSpirituality: Each of the major religions of the world yields a particular brand of hope. Biller and Scioli cover the seven types of hope found in these religions and explore alternative forms of spirituality that can foster hope while also considering the hope prospects of atheists. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe four elements of hope often overlap, says Biller. \u201cHope is a dynamic and fluid process. Moreover, many self-help books, especially those published in America, are \u201cone size fits all\u201d and tend to focus solely on mastery.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tTo help hope seekers discover their current hope profile, Biller and Scioli offer a hope \u201ctest\u201d, a 40-question instrument on the book\u2019s website, www.gainhope.com. If you are interested in a more detailed hope assessment, you can also take Part B (56 questions) designed to access your long-term capacity for hopefulness. For both tests, you will obtain a total score and then additional scores so you can gauge your strength and weakness, relative to others who have taken the test.<\/p>\n


\n\tScioli tosses readers a hope lifeline in this age of anxiety \u201cHopeful people are sustained by the belief that there are always options,\u201d he says, adding that they are also more apt to stay calm in a crisis due to their broader perspective and faith in the future. <\/p>\n

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KINGSTON, R.I.–September 16, 2009\u2014In these times of economic uncertainty, shrinking life savings, fears of global terrorism and technology-resistant germs, comes a book that offers hope. Not blind optimism, wishful thinking, or denial of reality, but a book that spans the \u201croots and wings\u201d of true hope. Hope in the Age of Anxiety, just released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}