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Hope theory: a framework for understanding suicidal action.
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This article examines C. R. Snyder's theory of hope and its application for understanding suicide to form the basis for future empirical investigation of suicide-related behavior using the framework of hope theory.Abstract:
This article examines C. R. Snyder's (1994, 2000a) theory of hope and its application for understanding suicide. Strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in the suicide literature are outlined, and A. T. Beck's theory of hopelessness is compared with Snyder's hope theory. Hope theory constructs are used to examine the relationship of suicide to hope/hopelessness, goals, pathways thinking, and agency thinking. This critical review is intended to broaden our theoretical understanding of suicide and is meant to form the basis for future empirical investigation of suicide-related behavior using the framework of hope theory. Implications for suicide prevention programs and approaches to treating suicidal individuals are outlined.read more
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Reasonable Hope: Construct, Clinical Applications, and Supports
TL;DR: A new conceptualization of hope-reasonable hope-that reflects how family therapists think and practice is presented, which describes clinical practices that, informed by reasonable hope, also facilitate its cocreation.
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Hope as a predictor of interpersonal suicide risk.
TL;DR: Results indicated that hope negatively predicted burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness, but positively predicted acquired capability to enact suicide.
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The Great Black Hope: Hope and its relation to suicide risk among African Americans
TL;DR: This is the first study to examine the relationship between hope and a specific theory of suicide in African Americans and predicted that hope would negatively predict the interpersonal suicide risk factors of burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness and positively predict acquired capability to enact suicide.
Positive Psychological Assessment: A Handbook of Models and Measures. Second Edition.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Positive Psychological Assessment in an Increasingly Diverse World (PPAWN) to measure and label the positive and negative aspects of human subjects.
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Hope and Hopelessness: The Role of Hope in Buffering the Impact of Hopelessness on Suicidal Ideation
TL;DR: Investigating whether hope and hopelessness are better conceptualized as a single construct of bipolar spectrum or two distinct constructs and whether hope can moderate the relationship between hopelessness and suicidal ideation found that hope can act as a resilience factor that buffers the impact of hopelessness on suicidal Ideation.
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TL;DR: The present 4 studies were designed to develop and validate a measure of state hope and offer a brief, internally consistent, and valid self-report measure of ongoing goal-directed thinking that may be useful to researchers and applied professionals.
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Hope theory: Rainbows in the mind.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined hope as the perceived capability to derive pathways to desired goals, and motivate oneself via agency thinking to use those pathways, and described the adult and child hope scales that are derived from hope theory.