Comprehensive Stress Management

by Greenberg, Jerrold

• ISBN13: 9780073529721
• ISBN10: 0073529729
• Edition: 13th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-05
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Comprehensive Stress Managementempowers students to learn what stress is, evaluate their level of stress, and apply to their own lives the tools and skills to manage that stress. The book examines a variety of topics relevant to college students such as intrapersonal and interpersonal stressors, physiological reactions to stress, spirituality and stress, occupational stress, and family stress. Lab Assessments at the conclusion of each chapter help students relate what they have learned to their personal lives by encouraging them to identify specific attitudes, behaviors, and coping skills as well as target areas for improvement. The 13th edition incorporates many changes and updates while still retaining the content and features valued by instructors and students over the previous editions.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Scientific Foundations

Chapter 1 What Is Stress?

Chapter 2 Stress Psychophysiology

Chapter 3 Stress and Illness/Disease

Chapter 4 Stress and the College Student

Part 2 General Applications: Life-Situation and Perception Interventions

Chapter 5 Intervention

Chapter 6 Life-Situation Interventions: Intrapersonal

Chapter 7 Life-Situation Interventions: Interpersonal

Chapter 8 Perception Interventions

Chapter 9 Spirituality and Stress

Part 3 General Applications: Relaxation Techniques

Chapter 10 Meditation

Chapter 11 Autogenic Training, Imagery, and Progressive Relaxation

Chapter 12 Other Relaxation Techniques

Part 4 General Applications: Physiological Arousal and Behavior Change Interventions

Chapter 13 Physiological Arousal Interventions

Chapter 14 Strategies for Decreasing Stressful Behaviors

Chapter 15 Diversity and Stress

Part 5 Specific Applications

Chapter 16 Occupational Stress

Chapter 17 Family Stress