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When an accident involves many people and when its consequences are
many and serious, we speak of a disaster. Disasters have the same
causal fac tors as accidents: they differ from accidents by the
gravity of consequences, not by causes. The action of a single
individual may result in thousands of deaths and huge financial
losses. The metal fatigue of a screw may, by a chain of events,
cause an explosion killing hundreds or lead to a break in a dam and
a devastating flood. The fact that minor and unpredictable acts can
lead to disasters is im portant because it allows us to predict
that the years to come will bring with them more disasters with
ever more severe consequences. The density ofhu man populations is
growing. By the year 2025 some four fifths of the world's
population will be living in urban settings. An explosion or a gas
leak in a densely populated area will cause incomparably more
damage than a simi lar event in a rural area. Modern technology is
immensely powerful (and its power is continuing to grow) and can be
used in a disastrous manner. Ag gression is just as possible now as
it was in the past, but the tools of aggression are vastly more
dangerous than ever before. This book, edited by Johan M. Havenaar,
Julie G. Cwikel, and Evelyn J. Bromet, is therefore very timely."
Strategic Stress Management shows how companies can boost performance by adopting integrated organizational strategies to identify and reduce stress in their employees. Including practical advice on how to conduct a stress audit and how to target stress 'hot spots' within an organization, Strategic Stress Management provides a fresh strategic model for the manager concerned with the negative effects stress can have both on company performance and the quality of life of individuals at work.
Journaling Techniques for Growing, Healing, and Creativity "When
Lynda [Monk] talks about her own journaling practice, a spirit of
flexibility infuses her approach."-Rebecca Kochenderfer,
Journaling.com #1 Best Seller in Writing Skills Writing Guides The
Great Book of Journaling provides calming tools for quelling worry
and anxiety from psychotherapist Eric Maisel. As well as expert
writing tips from Lynda Monk, Director of the International
Association for Journal Writing. Journal Writing for High
Self-Esteem. This is the next-generation book on journaling
techniques that introduces a younger generation to the immense
benefits of journaling and provides all journal writers with the
tools they need to grow, heal, and deepen their personal writing
experience. Utilize Therapeutic Writing. Journal writing can
promote individual healing, creativity, and community-building. The
Great Book of Journaling offers multiple perspectives on journaling
techniques in an easy-to-use, practical format, along with
providing a comprehensive introduction to various techniques and
methods for deepening your personal writing. Learn from the Best.
We've rounded up 40 of the top journal experts in the world to
explain exactly what journal writing can do for you! The Great Book
of Journaling is full of practical tips, evidence-based research,
and rich anecdotes from their coaching, teaching, therapy work with
journal writers, or their personal journal writing. The Great Book
of Journaling can help: Create high self-esteem, self-love, and
self-confidence Improve your health and your sense of wellbeing
Calm your worry and anxiety Serve your creative needs Deepen your
personal writing Readers of books on journal writing such as
Mindfulness Journal, The Self-Discovery Journal, or No Worries will
love The Great Book of Journaling.
Providing fresh insights into the complex relationship between
stress and mental health, internationally recognized contributors
identifie emerging conceptual issues, highlight promising avenues
for further study, and detail novel methodological techniques for
addressing contemporary empirical problems. Specific coverage
includes stressful life events, chronic strains, psychosocial
resources and mediators, vulnerability to stress, and mental health
outcomes-thus providing researchers with a tool to take stock of
the past and future of this field.
Stop negative thoughts, assuage anxiety, and live in the moment
with these fun, easy games from improv expert Clay Drinko. If
you've been feeling lost lately, you're not alone! Even before the
Covid-19 pandemic, Americans were experiencing record levels of
loneliness and anxiety. And in our current political turmoil, it's
safe to say that people are looking for new tools to help them feel
more present, positive, and in sync with the world. So what better
way to get there than play? In Play Your Way Sane, Dr. Clay Drinko
offers 120 low-key, accessible activities that draw on the popular
principles of improv comedy to help you tackle your everyday stress
and reconnect with the people around you. Divided into twelve fun
sections, including "Killing Debbie Downer" and "Thou Shalt Not Be
Judgy," the games emphasize openness, reciprocation, and active
listening as the keys to a mindful and satisfying life. Whether
you're looking to improve your personal relationships, find new
meaning at work, or just survive our trying times, Play Your Way
Sane offers serious self-help with a side of Second City sass.
Find calm with this little book. Offering tips to help you let go
of stress, and a collection of inspiring quotes to help you unwind,
it's an antidote to the bustle of every day. You might think that
"being calm" means being unfazed by stressful events - but nobody
is completely immune to worry, anxiety or concern. In fact, these
feelings are a normal and vital part of the human experience. Being
calm is all about how you deal with these feelings, and this little
book is here to help you navigate them. Within these pages you will
find a raft of simple but effective tips to help you manage your
emotions and think clearly, including: How to recognize stress in
your body Mindfulness exercises How to manage anxiety in the moment
Calming self-care ideas Breathe in... breathe out... and let this
book be your guide to staying calm and feeling good.
Much of what we know about the subject of coping is based on human
behavior and cognition during times of crisis and transition. Yet
the alarms and m or upheavals of life comprise only a portion of
those experiences that call for adaptive efforts. There remains a
vast array of life situations and conditions that pose continuing
hardship and threat and do not promise resolution. These chronic
stressors issue in part from persistently difficult life
circumstances, roles, and burdens, and in part from the conversion
of traumatic events into persisting adjustment challenges. Indeed,
there is growing recognition of the fact that many traumatic
experiences leave a long-lasting emotional residue. Whether or not
coping with chronic problems differs in form, emphasis, or func
tion from the ways people handle acute life events and transitions
is one of the central issues taken up in these pages. This volume
explores the varied circumstances and experiences that give rise to
chronic stress, as well as the ways in which individuals adapt to
and accommodate them. It addresses a number of substantive and
methodological questions that have been largely overlooked or
sidelined in previous inquiries on the stress and coping process."
"Stress Scripting" presents a unique and tested program of
stress management. Its basic idea is that writing thought and
action scripts for stress situations can enhance effective coping.
Comprehensive, scholarly, and very accessible, it is unlike any
other stress management book. With a focus on assertiveness
training, coginitive restructuring, stress inoculation training,
and relaxation, this book is an extremely versatile tool for
therapy, workshops, university instruction, business consultation,
and self-help groups. Innovative topics include: the link between
assertiveness, defense, and coping; the similarity of problem
solving and negotiation; relapse prevention; the phases of stress
and stress inoculation training coping philosophies; and
cognitive-behavioral relaxation training.
Divided into four parts, Stress Scripting is carefully designed
to be used either in its entirety, or each chapter separately. Part
I presents the basic ideas of stress scripting: defense and coping,
assertiveness, thinking and stress, cues, reinforcement, and the
phases of stress. It concludes with an option to contract for
behavior change. Concentrating on behavior change, Part II
introduces assertiveness scripts, relapse prevention, problem
solving and negotiation, desensitization, and the coping
philosophy. Part III presents an optional cognitive-behavioral
relaxation training program. "Stress Scripting" can be integrated
with whatever approach the user prefers. Part IV concludes this
volume with an extensive series of individual and group
exercises.
Ready to take back control? We all have stress in our lives. It
could be a deadline at work, a major change such as a house move,
or a relationship breakdown. Whatever it is, it can leave you
feeling out of control. How to Manage Stress helps you work out
what it is that makes you stressed and shows you how you can tackle
it. Whether you crumble under pressure, get angry, or simply bury
your head in the sand, this book provides effective techniques to
help you take the edge off and even channel your stress in a
positive way. * Know how to create a calm and stress-free
environment * Make better use of your time - never again get
overwhelmed * Identify stress in yourself and others - and know
what to do about it 'Engaging, practical and packed with simple to
achieve exercises that really do help you combat stress.' Matthew
Cole, Clinical Director, York Stress & Trauma Centre
Extreme Stress and Communities: Impact and Intervention is the
first volume to address traumatic stress from a community
perspective. The authors, drawn from among the world's leaders in
psychology, psychiatry and anthropology, examine how extreme
stress, such as war, disasters and political upheaval, interact in
their effects on individuals, families and communities. The book is
rich in both theoretical insight and practical experience. It
informs readers about how to adopt a community perspective and how
to apply this perspective to policy, research and intervention.
This book is one additional indication that a new field of study is
emerging within the social sciences, if it has not emerged already.
Here is a sampling of the fruit of a field whose roots can be
traced to the earliest medical writings in Kahun Papyrus in 1900
B.C. In this document, according to Ilza Veith, the earliest
medical scholars described what was later identified as hysteria.
This description was long before the 1870s and 1880s when Char cot
speculated on the etiology of hysteria and well before the first
use of the term traumatic neurosis at the turn of this Century.
Traumatic stress studies is the investigation of the immediate and
long-term psychosocial consequences of highly stressful events and
the factors that affect those consequences. This definition
includes three primary elements: event, conse quences, and causal
factors affecting the perception of both. This collection of papers
addresses all three elements and collectively contributes to our
understanding and appreciation of the struggles of those who have
en dured so much, often with little recognition of their
experiences."
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