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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with stress
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.
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.
This is a collection of 100 short essays, designed to teach the reader simple strategies for living a more fulfilled and peaceful life. The author claims that everyone can learn to put things in perspective by making the small daily changes such as: resist the urge to criticize; choose being kind over being right; ask yourself the question "will this matter a year from now?"; do something nice for someone else - and don't tell anyone else about it; and listen to your feelings. Richard Carlson aims to offer ways to make actions more peaceful and to help the reader be calm and stress-free.
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."
"No More Stress" provides you with both the biological factors
behind what makes you stressed, and also the thoughts, feeling and
behaviours that you engage in that contribute to stress. When you
understand what makes you stressed you are then more able to deal
with these factors--many of which are within your control. Many
stress factors are dramatically increased by the way you deal with
your life, so by devising better and more effective ways of dealing
with stressful situations, you can stress proof yourself. "No More
Stress" brings together the latest thinking in what contributes to
stress and how you can take personal control and limit the stress
in your life.
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