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14 - Understanding and Cultivating Hope in School

from Part III - Interventions from Educational and Social/Personality Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Dante D. Dixson
Edited by
Frank C. Worrell ,
Tammy L. Hughes  and
Dante D. Dixson
Frank C. Worrell
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Tammy L. Hughes
Affiliation:
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
Dante D. Dixson
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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Summary

A student’s hope – their ability to both envision paths to desirable future goals and believe that they will get there – is a powerful force within the school context. In this chapter, I discuss the relevance and utility of hope within the school setting for school psychologists. The chapter begins with an overview of hope theory, including how it is typically measured and its documented relationships with the achievement, academic engagement, mental health, and socioemotional functioning of students. Next, I discuss several ways school psychologists can promote hope schoolwide through various school policies and actions. Lastly, I go over several research-based hope interventions that can be employed in small groups as well as several informal hope-based interventions that can be utilized by school personnel more broadly. There are many ways that hope can be useful to school psychologists. This chapter provides a starter hope toolkit for how it can be leveraged.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Applied School Psychology , pp. 224 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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