Comprehensive Stress Management

by Greenberg, Jerrold S.

• ISBN13: 9780073529622
• ISBN10: 0073529621
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-03
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This engaging and easy-to-read text helps students identify, understand, and combat the stressors that most affect their lives. In an informal, anecdotal style, author Jerrold Greenberg discusses the latest research findings on the physical, psychological, sociological, and spiritual aspects of stress, as well as the appropriate coping skills.

Table of Contents

Scientific Foundations

What is Stress?

Stress Psychophysiology

Stress and Illness/Disease

General Applications: Life Situation and Perception Interventions

Intervention

Life-Situation Interventions: Intrapersonal

Life-Situation Interventions: Interpersonal

Perception Interventions

Spirituality and Stress

General Applications: Relaxation Techniques

Meditation

Autogenic Training and Imagery

Progressive Relaxation

Other Relaxation Techniques

General Applications: Physiological Arousal and Behavior Change Interventions

Physiological Arousal Interventions: Exercise

Strategies for Decreasing Stressful Behaviors

Diversity and StressPart

Specific Applications

Occupational Stress

Stress and the College Student

Family Stress

Stress and Older Adults

Stress Information Resources

Stress Management Audio and Video Tapes

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