Exploration of the Health Benefits of Factors That Help Us to Thrive A Special Issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volume 12, Number 2, 2005 Contents: M.A. Chesney, L.A. Darbes, K. Hoerster, J.M. Taylor, D.B. Chambers,Positive Emotions: Exploring the Other Hemisphere in Behavioral Medicine.K. Uvnas-Moberg, I. Arn, D. Magnusson,The Psychobiology of Emotion: The Role of the Oxytocinergic System.S.G. Post,Altrusim, Happiness, and Health: It's Good to Be Good.A. Skrabski, M. Kopp, S. Rozsa, J. Rethelyi, R.H. Rahe,Life Meaning: An Important Correlate of Health in the Hungarian Population.G. Ironson, E. Balbin, R. Stuetzle, M.A. Fletcher, C. O'Cleirigh, J-P. Laurenceau, N. Schneidermann, G. Solomon,Dispositional Optimism and the Mechanism by Which It Predicts Slower Disease Progression in HIV: Proactive Behavior, Avoidant Coping, and Depression.P. Lindfors, O. Lundberg, U. Lundberg,Sense of Coherence and Biomarkers of Health in 43-Year-Old Women.N.A. Pachana, J.H. Ford, B. Andrew, A.J. Dobson,Relations Between Companion Animals and Self-Reported Health in Older Women: Cause, Effect, or Artefact?A.M. Hayes, C.G. Beevers, G.C. Feldman, J-P. Laurenceau, C. Perlman,Avoidance and Processing as Predictors of Symptom Change and Positive Growth in an Integrative Therapy for Depression.Ironson, Gail is the author of 'Exploration of the Health Benefits of Factors That Help Us to Thrive A Special Issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine' with ISBN 9780805894400 and ISBN 0805894403.