The Best Hopes With Two Clinicians

Distinctions Within Hope

Episode Summary

So far in this podcast, we've looked at individual characteristics of hope under a microscopic lens. But let's take a step back and put all of these assets of hope into a context where they relate with one another.

Episode Notes

Snyder Reference: Snyder, C. R. (2002). Hope theory: Rainbows in the mind. Psychol. Inquiry 13, 249–275. doi: 10.1207/s15327965pli1304_01

1. Ambition (Aspiration, desire, dream, purpose)
2. Await (be prepared for, count on)
3. Dependence (responsibility, stability, steadiness, trust)
4. Encouragement (advocacy, confidence, fortitude, inspiration, invigoration, optimism)
5. Opportunities (good fortunes, happenings, Junctures, moments, occasions, probabilities)
6. Rumination (attention, brainwork, deducing, discerning, introspection, intuition, knowing, perceiving, understanding)
7. Virtue (advantage, asset, consideration, excellence, generosity, goodness, high-mindedness, incorruptibility, love, quality, respectability uprightness, value, worth)
8. Intention (bottom line, end, goal, nature, object, plan, target)
9. Belief (Confidence, expectation, intuition, mindset, presupposition, trust, understanding, view)
10. Anticipation (foresight, outlook, preoccupation)
11. Dream (design, wish)
12. Desire (petition, supplication)
13. Expectation:  (assumption, calculation, conjecture, design, intention, likelihood, prediction, presumption, promise, prospect, supposition, surmise)
14. Faith (acceptance, assent, certainty, credence, reliance, sureness, truth)
15. Purpose (destination, direction, function, intent, mission, plan, point, principle, view, what for, where one’s headed, whole idea)