Despair and Hopelessness

It appears that the present day Aboriginal situation is one of hopelessness and despair

It appears that the present day Aboriginal situation is one of hopelessness and despair. There is every indication that there will be no positive trend towards the achievement of economic, social, and political self-determination. In fact, it seems that social and cultural disintegration continues to escalate despite successive attempts by countless white and black policy makers, reformers and ...

Despair and Hope

Predicting Hopelessness 1 Running head : PREDICTING HOPELESSNESS

Improving our understanding of hopelessness is central to suicide prevention. This is the first study to investigate whether generalized expectancies for the future Predicting Hopelessness 2 (optimism/pessimism) and specific future-oriented cognitions (future thinking) interact to predict hopelessness and dysphoria. To this end, participants completed measures of future thinking, optimism/pessi...

Fisheries: hope or despair?

Recent work suggesting that fisheries depletions have turned the corner is misplaced because analysis was based largely on fisheries from better-managed developed-world fisheries. Some indicators of status show improvements in the minority of fisheries subjected to formal assessment. Other indicators, such as trophic level and catch time series, have been controversial. Nevertheless, several de...

Despair on disparities.

In this issue of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Sokka et al (see page 1666), by analysing the data from the Quantitative Standard Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis (QUEST-RA) cohort, with over 6000 patients from 25 countries, warn us of possible disparities in the health of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. This international team of researchers found a clear association between gross dom...