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Lawrence. hroughout their school years, students are faced with an array of increasingly important and difficult choices. These range from deciding what to do for the elementary school science fair and whom to ask to the eighth grade dance, if and where to go to college, and the best occupation to pursue, to name but a few. Particularly in adolescence, students are called upon to make monumental choices that may affect their lives well into the future. Beginning in the primary school years, school counselors can prepare students to make adaptive choices by instilling in them what we call “hope." Hope, as discussed in this article, is that which enables pcople to set valued goals, to see the means to achieve those goals, and to find the drive to make those goals happen.

We have three purposes in writing this article. First, we detail a relatively new theory of hopeful thinking and discuss its implications for determining …