The Praeger Handbook on Stress and Coping [Two Volumes]

Subjects:

• Psychology » Psychology (General)
• Psychology » Environmental Psychology
• Health/Medicine » Health/Medicine (General)
• Health/Medicine » Public Health

Reviews:

• Stress is a phenomenon that is intuitively grasped by most people, yet its scientific construct and clinical applications are surprisingly unsettled while also quite promising, as revealed in this valuable anthology. The editors-Monat, noted scholar and researcher Richard S. Lazarus, and Gretchen Reevy have provided a diverse collection of previously published articles on various aspects of the subject, including research reviews, theoretical discussions, and personal narratives (e.g., Lance Armstrong on battling cancer). The book is organized into five sections covering a description of the stress concept and its physiological and psychological manifestations, stress and illness, post-traumatic stress disorder, and stress management and coping styles. While most of the well-chosen articles are scholarly, some, particularly those on handling stress, could be useful to self-help-minded general readers....As an authoritative, wide-ranging, and timely compilation on a significant contemporary problem, this work is recommended for academic libraries and allied health collections.
  —Library Journal June 15, 2007
• This handbook is recommended for all libraries (especially academic) as well as professionals in related fields.
  —American Reference Books Annual 2008
• [A] very comprehensive, informative, intellectually challenging, research-based, and scholarly encyclopedia on stress and coping. It gives readers solid historical and classic information, as well as contemporary thought and theories in the field of stress, that will be of significant value for researchers, students, scholars, and professionals in the fields of psychology, health sciences, medicine, pharmacology, psychiatry, nursing, and physical education....The editors' and contributors' skill in writing, their encyclopedic knowledge, clarity of thought, professional integrity, commitment to hard work, and team spirit shine in all 601 pages of this most comprehensive handbook....an excellent text and essential reading material for doctoral students, researchers, scholars, and professionals.
  —PsycCRITIQUES March 5, 2008
• In 31 narrative and research essays contributors ranging from academics to athletes and counselors to physicians address research on the mental and physical effects of stress as well as techniques to use to control or at least cope with stress. They describe the concept of stress and how it developed from the 1950s onward, linkages between stress and emotion, work stress, and neuropeptides' effects on the mind-body connection. Essays on stress and illness cover allostatic load, heart disease and racial differences in attitudes about it, depression, the role of metabolism and coping with HIV, while those on post-traumatic stress cover epidemiological studies, terrorism, neuropsychological processes and violent environments. The focus then shifts to coping, including cultivating optimism, developing a holistic coping system, caring for health and managing stress through group work, diet and exercise. Co-editors include the late expert Richard S. Lazarus.
  —SciTech Book News June 2007

Table of Contents:

• Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: The Stress Concept
• Introduction to The Stress Concept"
• Chapter 1: Stress: A Brief History
• The Twentieth Century: From the 1950s to Richard Lazarus
• Chapter 2: Stress and Emotion: A New Synthesis
• Stress and Emotion
• Chapter 3: Work Stress
• Macro-Level Work Stressors
• Chapter 4: The Wisdom of the Receptors: Neuropeptides, the Emotions, and Bodymind
• Chapter 5: Allostatic Load: When Protection Gives Way to Damage
• Part II: Stress and Illness
• Introduction to Stress and Illness
• Chapter 6: Dr. Dean Ornishs Program for Reversing Heart Disease
• Chapter 7: Racial Differences in Attitudes Regarding Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Treatment
• Chapter 8: Stress : Myth, Theory and Research
• Stress : Health and Illness
• Chapter 9: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
• Chapter 10: Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers
• Stress, Metabolism, and Liquidating Your Assets
• Chapter 11: Psychological Factors and Immunity in HIV Infection
• Stress, Coping, Social Support, and Intervention Outcomes
• Part III: Posttraumatic Stress
• Introduction to Posttraumatic Stress
• Chapter 12: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Terrorism
• Chapter 13: Neuropsychological Processes in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Chapter 14: Growing Up Under the Gun: Children and Adolescents
• Coping with Violent Neighborhoods
• Glossary
• Index
• Contributors
• Volume II
• :Figures and Tables
• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part IV: The Coping Concept
• Introduction to The Coping Concept
• Chapter 16: What Does It Mean to Cope?
• Chapter 17: Cultivating Optimism in Childhood and Adolescence
• Chapter 18: The Story of Hardiness: Twenty Years of Theorizing, Research, and Practice
• Chapter 19: Racing Against Your Heart
• Chapter 20: Sex-related Differences in the Social SupportStress Relationship
• Part V: Examples of Coping
• Introduction to Examples of Coping
• Chapter 21: Its Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
• Chapter 22: Experiences in Early Stage Alzheimers Disease: Understanding the Paradox of Acceptance and Denial
• Chapter 23: Coping with Test Situations: Resources, Strategies, and Adaptational Outcomes
• Chapter 24: The Black Scholar Interviews Maya Angelou
• Part VI: Stress Management
• Introduction to Stress Management
• Chapter 25: Massage Therapy Effects
• Chapter 26: What We Really Know about Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction
• Chapter 27: Yoga for Stress Reduction and Injury Prevention at Work
• Chapter 28: Psychotherapy : A Cognitive Perspective
• Chapter 29: Stress and Diet
• Chapter 30: Exercise Treatment for Major Depression: Maintenance of Therapeutic Benefit
• Chapter 31: Attitudes and Beliefs about 12-Step Groups among Addiction Treatment Clients and Clinicians: Identifying Obstacles to Participation
• Glossary
• Index
• Contributors

PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Health and Wellness Spring 2008.pdf	Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf