Exploring Hope

Exploring the Students\' Hope Based on Coping Styles and Meanings of Life

Introduction: The aim of study was to explain studentschr('39') hope based on coping styles and meaning of life. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population of the study included all undergraduate students of  Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) who were studying in the academic year 2009-2010. To determine the sample size, similar research studies ...

Hope against hope: exploring the hopes and challenges of rural female caregivers of persons with advanced cancer

BACKGROUND This paper focuses on the qualitative component of a study evaluating a hope intervention, entitled Living with Hope Program (LWHP), designed to foster hope in female caregivers of family members living with advanced cancer. The purpose of this research is to share, in the form of a story, the experiences of rural female caregivers caring for family members with advanced cancer, focu...

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...

"Hope, Danger's Comforter": Thucydides, Hope, Politics

Special Geriatric Psychiatry Section Exploring the Links Between Depression, Integrity, and Hope in the Elderly

E lderly persons experience a complex array of physical, psychological, and social changes while they struggle to adjust to the aging process. As part of the psychosocial developmental task of aging, most people deal with existential issues, at some level, in their efforts to achieve integrity or coherence. In his theory of human development, Erik Erickson describes distinct developmental stage...