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.