Comprehensive Stress Management

by Greenberg, Jerrold S.

• ISBN13: 9780072319705
• ISBN10: 0072319704
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw Hill College

Summary

Using an informal, anecdotal style, author Jerrold Greenberg helps you to understand the scientific foundations underlying stress in the Ninth Edition. He discusses the latest research findings on the physical, psychological, sociological, and spiritual aspects of stress, and covers appropriate coping skills to help you manage stress in everyday life. With this edition you can: Use laboratory assessment activities and exercises to relate concepts to your own life and to help identify coping strategies. The text is now perforated for easy removal of the labs, allowing you to easily develop your own stress portfolio. Explore new research findings about managing stress with humor in Chapter 7, spirituality and stress in Chapter 8, and helpful breathing exercises and the value of pets in managing stress in Chapter 12. Learn how to assist in decreasing stress levels in your community through "Getting Along in Your Community" boxes that show how to apply the chapter content to related community projects. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Scientific Foundations	1	(59)
What Is Stress	3	(16)
Stress Psychophysiology	19	(16)
Stress and Illness/Disease	35	(24)
Part 2 General Applications: Life-Situation and Perception Interventions	59	(96)
Intervention	61	(12)
Life-Situation Interventions: Interapersonal	73	(22)
Life-Situation Interventions: Interpersonal	95	(20)
Perception Interventions	115	(28)
Spirituality and Stress	143	(12)
Part 3 General Applications: Relaxation Techniques	155	(52)
Meditation	157	(10)
Autogenic Training and Imagery	167	(12)
Progressive Relaxation	179	(12)
Biofeedback and Other Relaxation Techniques	191	(16)
Part 4 General Applications: Physiological Arousal and Behavior Change Interventions	207	(62)
Physiological Arousal Interventions: Exercise	209	(24)
Strategies for Decreasing Stressful Behaviors	233	(18)
Diversity and Stress	251	(18)
Part 5 Specific Applications	269	(2)
Occupational Stress	271	(30)
Stress and the College Student	301	(22)
Family Stress	323	(26)
Stress and the Elderly	349