Beyond Stress and Coping: The Positive Psychology of Transformation -- Theoretical Issues -- Culture: A Fundamental Context for the Stress and Coping Paradigm -- A New Theoretical Model of Collectivistic Coping -- Coping with Suffering: The Buddhist Perspective -- The Way of Nature as a Healing Power -- Advance in the Study of Religious and Spiritual Coping -- Coping Strategies and Culturally Influenced Beliefs about the World -- Personality Systems and a Biosocioexistential Model of Posttraumatic Responses Based on a Korean Sample -- Methodological Issues -- Frequently Ignored Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural Stress Research -- Problems and Strategies When Using Rating Scales in Cross-Cultural Coping Research -- A Resource-Congruence Model of Coping and the Development of the Coping Schemas Inventory -- Acculturative Stress -- Acculturative Stress -- The Effects of Acculturative Stress on the Hispanic Family -- Coping with Domestic Violence by Japanese Canadian Women -- How Visible Minority Students Cope with Supervision Stress -- Psychological Skills Related to Intercultural Adjustment -- Culture, Coping, and Resilience -- Hardiness Considered Across Cultures -- Resilience as a Coping Mechanism: A Common Story of Vietnamese Refugee Women -- Stress and Coping Among Asian Americans: Lazarus and Folkman’s Model and Beyond -- The Agony, Silent Grief, and Deep Frustration of Many Communities in the Middle East: Challenges for Coping and Survival -- Stress, Culture, and Racial Socialization: Making an Impact -- Adjustment and Coping in Aboriginal People -- Occupational Stress -- Towards an Understanding of Occupational Stress Among Asian Americans -- A Multicultural Perspective on Work-related Stress: Development of a Collective Coping Scale -- Conclusion -- Knowledge Gaps about Stress and Coping in a Multicultural Context.

Has the developing world developed modern concepts of stress? Are coping methods the same around the globe? Such questions are not simple to answer, and until recently, few knew to ask them. In recent years, Western psychologists have recognized that their prevailing views of psychology do not always translate worldwide—and that no culture has a monopoly on either stress or coping. The Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping was created to address this realization. This unique volume moves beyond simple comparisons of behaviors in other countries by clarifying critical concepts in stress and coping, analyzing and synthesizing vast amounts of global data, and identifying constructs and methodologies necessary for meaningful cross-cultural research. An international, multiethnic panel of forty-five contributors presents elegant studies of stress, survival, and resilience as cultures evolve and countries interact, including: • Personal transformation as a coping strategy • Psychological skills that enhance intercultural adjustment • Individual versus collectivist values in coping • Buddhist and Taoist traditions in coping • The cumulative effects of historical, environmental, and political stressors on nations in the Middle East • Specific cross-cultural perspectives, from Latino-American families to Canadian aboriginal peoples to minority university students The editors have assembled a vital store of knowledge, raising crucial implications for clinicians working with immigrant/international populations, and evaluating the current state of theory, research, and assessment. The Handbook documents major steps toward scientific advancement—and human understanding.