| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 437 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [385]-417. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Stress and coping - some current issues and controversies -- Part I. Stress and some of its effects -- History and present status of the stress concept / Hans Selye -- Stress : a psychophysiological conception / Anis Mikhail -- Stress and bodily illness / Frances Cohen -- Anatomy of an illness (as perceived by the patient) / Norman Cousins -- Part II. Stress and the environment -- The living world / Rene Dubos -- Physiological, motivational, and cognitive effects of aircraft noise on children : moving from the laboratory to the field / Sheldon Cohen ... [et al.] -- Mediating influences of social support on stress at Three Mile Island / Raymond Fleming ... [et al.] -- The psychological stresses of intensive care unit nursing / Donald Hay and Donald Oken -- Part III. The concept of coping -- Strategies of adaptation : an attempt at systematic description / Robert W. White -- Conceptualizations of ego : processes, functions, regulations / Norma Haan -- The costs and benefits of denial / Richard S. Lazarus -- Stressful life events, personality, and health : an inquiry into hardiness / Suzanne C. Kobasa -- Part IV. Coping with the stresses of living -- Life strains and psychological distress among adults / Leonard I. Pearlin -- Some modes of adaptation : defense / David Mechanic -- The management of abhorrent behavior - survival period / Rex A. Lucas -- A prediction of delayed stress response syndromes in Vietnam veterans / Mardi J. Horowitz and George F. Solomon -- Part V. Coping with death and dying -- Reactions to the imminence of death / Thomas P. Hackett and Avery D. Weisman -- Behavioral observations on parents anticipating the death of a child / Stanford B. Friedman ... [et al.] -- The college student and death / Edwin S. Shneidman -- The effects of bereavement on mortality : a social psychological analysis / Wolfgang Stroebe ... [et al.] -- Part VI. Stress management -- The relaxation response / Herbert Benson -- Strategies for modifying type A behavior / Margaret A. Chesney and Ray H. Rosenman -- Stress inoculation in health care : theory and research / Irving L. Janis -- Toward effective coping : the basic steps / Robert M. Bramson -- Stress management : averting the evil eye / Ethel Roskies -- Out of the habit trap / Stanton Peele. |
| Subject |
Stress (Psychology)
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Adjustment (Psychology)
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| Indexed Term |
Man Stress |
| Subject |
Adaptation, Psychological.
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Stress, Psychological.
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| Added Author |
Monat, Alan, 1945-
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Lazarus, Richard S.
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| ISBN |
0231058209 |
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0231058217 paperback |
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