LJPC is not so much a journal I would say. It is more like a movement that gives hope by championing and supporting a broad vision for health and care. It lifts our eyes beyond the single picture frame to view a whole gallery. It also provides opportunities to think freely and design systems and models of care that derive from the range of people’s needs and meet them, rather than simply descri...

Hope is a crucial component of agency involving the setting of goals, visualization of obstacles, and increasing willpower in the effort of achieving a desired goal. This hope is not simply optimism and is potentially a bridge between structure and agency. Yet, the powers of hope in sociology have been greatly unexplored including the ability of collective hope to create social change. This lac...

purpose: the aim of the present study was to determine theeffectiveness of group hope therapy on the time horizon andoptimism of divorced women 25-40 years old in tehran whoreferred to a counseling center. materials and method: 30divorced women were selected randomly and were assignedat two experimental and control groups. group hope therapywas held for 8 sessions of 2 hour. group hope therapy ...