Coping with Life Stress
Coping with Life Stress

Author: Meena Hariharan

Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 2018-06-25

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9789353881030

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This book provides a new perspective to the theories of stress and coping. A holistic treatment related to stress and coping through Indian case reports and analyses makes this book unique. This volume provides useful theoretical and practical inputs on effective coping under varying internal and external conditions. Analysis of Indian cases with contrasts from western culture explains the role culture plays in the coping strategy. The interactive exercises included could be used as tools for diagnosis along with practical suggestions for stress management and coping for the readers.

Coping with Stress
Coping with Stress

Author: Paul R. Robbins

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2007-03-26

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0786428759

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The dynamics of 21st century life have created a social environment full of stressful situations. A Journal of The American Psychological Association noted that stress in the workplace has reached a critical point, and studies suggest that the most common aspects of our lives, such as relationships and daily activities, often cause the greatest degrees of stress. This book provides a comprehensive look at what professionals know about coping with stress, drawing upon research to assert which methods of coping seem to be effective and which do not. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of stress, looking at the effects of stress in daily life, considering some of the ways researchers study stress, and examining how the human body reacts to stressful events. The book then turns to the ways psychologists conceptualize, measure and study coping mechanisms, and to specific techniques, beginning with those that appear to be ineffective in reducing stress such as obsessing and ruminating about the problem and proceeding to those that appear effective such as seeking social support, exercise and improving interpersonal skills. For individuals considering professional help, the final chapters present some basic information about medications, psychotherapy and alternative medicine approaches.

Coping with Life Crises
Coping with Life Crises

Author: Rudolf Moos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-12-20

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1468470213

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This book examines new developments in the area of human competence and coping behavior. It sets forth a conceptual framework that considers the interplay between environmental contexts and personal resources and their impact on how indi viduals cope with life transitions and crises. The selections cover the tasks confronted in varied life crises and describe the coping strategies employed in managing them. The material identifies the long-term effects of such life events as divorce and bereave ment as well as the way in which these stressors can promote personal growth and maturity. The book contains a broad selec tion of recent literature on coping and adaptation, integrative commentaries that provide the background for each of the areas as well as conceptual linkages among them, and an introductory overview that presents a general perspective on human compe tence and coping. Illustrative case examples are included. The first part of the book is organized chronologically ac cording to developmental life transitions confronted by many people-from the childhood years through adolescence, career choice and parenthood, divorce and remarriage, middle age and retirement, and death and bereavement. The second part covers unusual life crises and other hazards that typically involve ex treme stress such as man-made and natural disasters and terrorism. The book highlights effective coping behavior among healthy individuals rather than psychological breakdown and psychiatric symptoms. The emphasis is on successful adaptation, the ability to cope with life transitions and crises, and the process by which such ix x PREFACf. ".

Stress and Coping: an Anthology
Stress and Coping: an Anthology

Author: Richard S. Lazarus

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780231891431

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Evaluated are stress causes and its effects, both physical and emotional. Also studied are coping and stress management techniques.

Stress and Coping
Stress and Coping

Author: Alan Monat

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 9780231074575

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This collection of articles on stress and coping covers stress and its effects, stress and the environment, the concept of coping, coping with the stresses of living and dying, and stress management.

Coping with Faculty Stress
Coping with Faculty Stress

Author: Walter H. Gmelch

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 1993-08-24

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1452253889

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Dr. Gmelch follows a sensible, pragmatic sequence of presentation in this book. . . . This book would be a definite asset for all academic libraries. In fact, I would urge departmental chairs and deans to issue it to each graduate student completing their program and entering higher education and each new assistant professor joining the faculty. --Academic Library Book Review Anxiety, frustration, and strain leading to stress and burnout. Who hasn′t felt these pressures to some degree? Stress is a common feature of academic life--and not always a bad thing--according to education professor Walter H. Gmelch, who has studied faculty stress for 15 years. "Positive" stress can actually help make you a more productive scholar. But, how do we manage those little (and not so little) annoying moments and patterns of behavior that build up to the boiling point by the end of the week? Based on his extensive research, Gmelch outlines the chief forms of faculty stress and its major causes. He then provides concrete advice on what you can do about the negative stressors in your job and in other areas of your life. Replete with exercises to help understand how stress affects you and forms to help you build a plan to cope with this stress, this book will be welcome relief for any faculty member.

Life-span Developmental Psychology
Life-span Developmental Psychology

Author: E. Mark Cummings

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1317784812

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Although there has been a significant increase in studies of stress and coping processes in recent years, researchers have often approached these topics from rather narrow and constrained perspectives. Furthermore, little communication has occurred across disciplines and research directions, resulting in the emergence of several relatively isolated literatures. An outgrowth of the Eleventh Biennial West Virginia University Conference on Life-Span Development, this volume emphasizes two major themes: the importance of taking a life-span approach to the study of stress and coping, and the development of new and more complete conceptual models of stress and coping processes. The first to approach these subjects from a life-span perspective, this book includes papers by distinguished researchers from each of the major periods of the life-span, and brings together the cognitive and socioemotional traditions in the study of dealing with pressures. The editors hope that this facilitation of communication among researchers with diverse views will help create a broadening and integration of perspectives.

Mind the Gap
Mind the Gap

Author: Mary McNaughton-Cassill

Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing

Published: 2013-01-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781609278144

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Mind the Gap: Coping with Stress in the Modern World explores the stress of modern life and how thoughts and feelings can both create and bridge the gap between what we have and what we want. Unlike standard textbooks in the field that tend to take a theoretical approach to stress, this conversational, accessible book focuses on helping readers identify and understand the sources of stress in their life from a practical perspective. The text explores how stress is generated in the brain and body, and provides realistic suggestions for learning to manage these responses. Topics include: Technology and Stress The Media and Stress Time as a Source of Stress Diet, Exercise, and Stress Stress, Health, and Aging Social Support and Stress The Four Corners of Stress Each chapter begins with an outline of key points and end with a set of "What Do You Think?" questions designed to give readers the opportunity to reflect on what they have learned and to develop a personal stress management strategy. Mind the Gap can be used in courses dealing with stress management, health psychology, and personal growth, or simply as a means for individuals to understand and manage their own stress.

Coping with Negative Life Events
Coping with Negative Life Events

Author: C.R. Snyder

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1475798652

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"Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters" The surge of current interest in the interface between clinical and social psychology is well illustrated by the publication of a number of general texts and journals in this area, and the growing emphasis in graduate programs on providing training in both disciplines. Although the bene fits of an integrated clinical-social approach have been recognized for a number of years, the recent work in this area has advanced from the oretical extrapolations of social psychological models to clinical issues to theory and research that is based on social principles and conducted in clinical domains. It is becoming increasingly common to find social psy chologists pursuing research with clinical populations and clinical psy chologists investigating variables that have traditionally been in the realm of social psychology. A major area of interface between the two disciplines is in research and theory concerned with how individuals respond to negative events. In addition to the trend toward an integrated clinical-social approach, the growing body of literature in this area reflects the explosion of cur rent interest in the area of health psychology; work by clinical and social psychologists on the topics of stress and coping has been one of the major facets of this burgeoning field. The purpose of the present volume is to provide a common forum for recent advances in the clinical and social literature on responses to negative life outcomes.