Abstract

To review a research program about adolescents' coping with life-threatening illness and nurses' role in fostering the adolescents' coping efforts. Research studies, review articles, and book chapters. Adolescents who have cancer are at risk of negative health outcomes. Promoting positive coping during the developmental period of adolescence helps adolescents to assume greater responsibility for their health actions. Certain behaviors initiated by health care providers on hopefulness in adolescents assists the ill adolescents in articulating their hopes and realising or redefining those hopes.

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