Essentials of Managing Stress

Essentials of Managing Stress

Author: Brian Luke Seaward

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2016-01-07

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1284101509

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The fourth edition of Essentials of Managing Stress teaches readers practical skills and techniques on how to best handle daily stressors and empowers them with the tools needed to live a balanced life. The Fourth Edition is a highly accessible and student-friendly text that is designed to promote personal growth along with content retention. Students are guided through a series of more than 80 exercises and questionnaires that encourage them to adopt effective stress management practices into their personal health behaviors. A new chapter on Ecotherapy rounds out the text and provides insight into the healing powers of nature.


Stress Management and Prevention

Stress Management and Prevention

Author: David D. Chen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-22

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 131744342X

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Gain a critical understanding of the nature of stress from a positive psychology framework that allows you to look beyond a simple pathology of stress-related symptoms. This new edition of Stress Management and Prevention integrates Eastern and Western concepts of stress while emphasizing an experiential approach to learning through the use of exercises, activities, and self-reflection. This student-friendly text contains chapters on conflict resolution, mindfulness meditation, time management, prevention of health risks, and cognitive restructuring. Included throughout are an emphasis on mindfulness and the neuroscience behind it, more theories, and new techniques for stress reduction and time management. An updated companion website includes even more video-based activities so students can see techniques in practice.


Preventive Stress Management in Organizations

Preventive Stress Management in Organizations

Author: James C. Quick

Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 9781433811852

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Stress at work is a daily fact of life for most workers, managers, and even psychologists. This book, written in clear, accessible language, shows how to stop job stress before it starts. As the authors say, "stress is inevitable, distress is not." Originally published in 1984, this bestseller has been revised and updated for a new generation of readers. It will be a key resource for managers, human resource professionals, industrial/organizational psychologists, graduate students in industrial/organizational psychology, and business administrators.


Stress Management Intervention for Women with Breast Cancer

Stress Management Intervention for Women with Breast Cancer

Author: Michael H. Antoni

Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9781557989413

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Annotation This book/manual package provides a clinical framework for health professionals who wish to offer group psychosocial support to breast cancer patients. The package trains therapists to help group members cope with the diagnosis of breast cancer and its treatment and provides empirical validation for the program's techniques. Session- by-session guidelines are supplied in the therapist's manual for each module of the program. A separate companion workbook for group participants is also available. Antoni is professor of psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).


I'm Stretched

I'm Stretched

Author: Julia Cook

Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1953945147

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In I'm Stretched!, Julia Cook, award-winning children's book author and parenting expert, shows children just how overwhelming and powerful stress can be as it piles on the pressure and tries to steal our joy. I'm stretched! I have so much stuff to do. Gotta be here...Gotta do that...Where did I put my shoe? I feel like a rubber band that's stretched and about to break. I have places to go and things to do and a great big project to make! Stress is a part of life, and in our fast-paced society, children often feel an unbelievable amount of pressure to balance family and friends, school and homework, and extracurricular activities. All of their responsibilities and expectations can make them feel stretched beyond their limits. I'm Stretched! is a captivating story that speaks to children and adults alike, giving them tactical tools to manage their stress in a healthy and helpful way so they can face the pressures of life and find joy in being who they were meant to be.


Stress Management

Stress Management

Author: Barbara A. Brehm

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780321002266

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Stress is a fact of life yet not all stress is distress. Stress can indeed provide the spice of life! Soft cover in near fine condition. Text block clean and tight. There are a couple of notes written inside front cover. Title page has been clipped at top corner. There is some underlining through text very neat.


Research Companion to Organizational Health Psychology

Research Companion to Organizational Health Psychology

Author: Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 718

ISBN-13: 9781845423308

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The rapid and sweeping changes in the economy, technology, work practices and family structures mean that organizational health psychology has never been so essential for understanding stress in the workplace. This timely Research Companion is essential reading to advance the understanding of healthy behaviors within working environments and to identify problems which can be the cause of illness. Containing both theoretical and empirical contributions written by distinguished academics working in Europe, North America and Australia, the book covers leading edge topics ranging from current theories of stress, stress management, and stress in specific occupational groups, such as doctors and teachers, to the relationship of stress with well-being. It provides systematic approaches towards practical actions and stress interventions in working environments and a solid theoretical framework for future research. It will be an essential companion to research on psychology and medicine as well as stress.


Stress at Work

Stress at Work

Author: Jeremy Stranks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-04-18

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1136361812

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Work-related stress and resulting sickness absence costs the UK economy about £3.7 billion every year (HSE research). In this jargon-free guide, Jeremy Stranks explains what stress is and what causes it, how people respond to stress and cope with it, how stress can be evaluated and managed and what employers’ legal responsibilities are. Written for managers, HR professionals and safety reps, the emphasis of this book is strongly on practical advice and solutions. The author provides simple tools to measure and assess stress and shows how to deal with a range of stress-creating workplace situations, such as bullying, harassment and violence at work. The book also details how to implement a stress management system that complies with the new HSE Management Standards to avoid civil claims and criminal sanctions by the enforcement agencies. End of chapter key points draw out the implications of the preceding text for the employer and an executive summary shows the main aspects that senior management have to be aware of. In addition, the book contains forms and templates to help with managing stress. These are also available for download on the companion website. Stress at Work will also be a valuable reference for students on the following courses as part of modules concerned with Human Factors: NEBOSH Certificate and Diploma courses, MSc courses in Occupational Health and Safety Management, IOSH Managing Safely, British Safety Council diploma and NVQ level 3 and 4 courses in Occupational Safety and Health. Jeremy Stranks has 40 years of experience in occupational safety and health enforcement, management, consultancy and training. He is a founding member of NEBOSH and has lectured on numerous training courses on all aspects of health and safety. His company Safety and Hygiene Consultants offers companies advice in drawing up Health and Safety policies, writing risk assessments and audit procedures.