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Exploring ambivalence, reasons for living and reasons for dying
Published in Lorraine Bell, Helping People Overcome Suicidal Thoughts, Urges and Behaviour, 2021
Ways of instilling hope can be: celebrating their engagement in your session or intervention, attending, talking about this difficult matter;identifying strengths they have that have enabled them to resist suicidal urges;identifying how current or future interventions may help.
Person-centred care
Published in Catherine Proot, Michael Yorke, Challenges and Choices for Patient, Carer and Professional at the End of Life, 2021
Catherine Proot, Michael Yorke
Doctors and caregivers help patients not only with their medical and scientific knowledge but by giving hope, which does not necessarily mean reassuring the patient that they will get better. In the palliative approach hope comes with listening to their suffering and looking with them for the meaning of their life despite the suffering. Being a messenger of hope is helping the patient recognise that despite all that they are going through, their life still has value, that they can still give and receive love.
Around pain
Published in Stephen Buetow, Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care, 2020
This openness can be a creative resource for developing the self-confidence needed to make decisions under a condition of uncertainty. Ambiguity that feels safe allows persons to form positive expectancies,71 by creating positive affect in information uptake while reducing complexity.72 A double-blind experiment found that ambiguous cues decreased the perceived intensity of lower (but not higher) temperature stimuli that were also ambiguous or innocuous (32°C).73 Although ambiguity here relates to the perception of pain as much as its unpleasantness, this finding suggests conditions under which ambiguous signals acquire meaning via conditions like optimism and hope. Without risking despair, persons can use hope to motivate adaptive coping and functioning.74,75 As observed in a Persian proverb, attributed to Nizami Ganjavi, “be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds.” By promoting epistemic humility then, ambiguity may be self-reinforcing, although various forces can contribute to ambiguity and its management.
Indicators of life success from the perspective of individuals with traumatic brain injury: a scoping review
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2023
Emily Nalder, Gillian King, Anne W. Hunt, Laura R. Hartman, Zara Szigeti, Emma Drake, Riya Shah, Maryam Shahzad, Myles Resnick, Giles Pereira, Erica Lenton
The four domains of life experiences (understanding, doing, social, and hope) also align with research on resiliency. For example, Masten’s seminal work discussed basic adaptational processes underpinning resiliency, including connection to others, motivation to engage in the environment, and cognitive processes which may influence understanding/meaning of experiences [102]. In disability research on resiliency, King et al. [7] identified that individuals acquired new life directions, through interactions with others and their sense of belonging (social), taking part in meaningful activities (doing), and acquiring an understanding of themselves and the world (understanding). Hope has been described as a resiliency-related adaptive self-capacity relevant to rehabilitation [4]. Taken together, resiliency literature and the findings in this scoping review, suggest that resiliency following TBI may involve multiple processes involving social interaction and relationships to feel connected, accepted or understood, doing (or engagement in activities providing a sense of control, purpose, or accomplishment), meaning-making to develop understanding of oneself and of life, and having experiences that provide a sense of hope.
Development and Initial Validation of the Persevering Hope Scale: Measuring Wait-Power in Four Independent Samples
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2023
Sandra Yu Rueger, Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Edward B. Davis, Zhuo Job Chen, Richard G. Cowden, Jaclyn M. Moloney, Elisha Eveleigh, Lauren B. Stone, Austin W. Lemke, Kevin J. Glowiak
Even though a goal-directed definition of hope has offered many insights into the human condition, there are several limitations to this conceptualization of hope. First, there are many other factors that might motivate (or demotivate) hope, such as external and internal rewards, emotional and psychophysiological fluctuations, religious/spiritual beliefs and practices, social interactions and expectations, and contextual and cultural influences (Gallagher & Lopez, 2018; van den Heuvel, 2020). In addition, a goal-directed conceptualization of hope does not capture all aspects of hope that are commonly experienced. This conceptualization does not account for times when we appeal to hope because our confidence is lacking (Milona, 2020) and does not leave room for those who may have hope that is based outside their own personal agency (Bloeser & Stahl, 2017). For example, everyday experiences of hope can vary across individuals and circumstances. Hope can be a confident belief that a desire will be fulfilled, or it can be reflected in a peaceful acknowledgment of small odds or of a benevolent transcendent purpose. Similarly, hope can involve a consuming focus or patient waiting (Milona, 2020). Snyder’s hope theory does not fully account for the many faces of hope in times of uncertainty.
The Role of Hope and Resilience in Protecting Against Suicidal thoughts and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in Archives of Suicide Research, 2022
James R. P. Knowles, Nicola S. Gray, Chris O’Connor, Jennifer Pink, Nicola J. Simkiss, Robert J. Snowden
Given the powerful protective abilities of hope and resilience demonstrated here, a logical next step is to consider how to develop these traits in our communities. Recently, researchers have moved away from the notion that resilience is a fixed and stable trait and now view resilience as a dynamic, changeable process (Stainton et al., 2019). Recent research has suggested that “resilience training” interventions can decrease stress, anxiety, and improve quality of life (Sood, Prasad, Schroeder, & Varkey, 2011). Likewise, hope is also considered to be a changeable state (Hernandez & Overholser, 2020) and the field of positive psychology has demonstrated that simple exercises such as writing a letter of gratitude or reflecting on one’s personal strengths (Huffman et al., 2014) can substantially increase one’s hope for the future. Future research must consider the most effective methods of building resilience and hope in communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.