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Don't let your own reaction to stress negatively affect the
children in your care! With new evidence indicating that
undesirable stress is likely to have its roots in childhood,
Childhood Stress in Contemporary Society is a much-needed resource
for anyone who works with children. An authority in the field of
stress education, Dr. James Humphrey offers an easy-to-read text on
what stress is, how it affects children as opposed to adults, and
how to take back control when stress becomes overwhelming. Whether
a parent, caretaker, counselor, or teacher, this book will provide
you with a better understanding of stress and several methods for
helping children cope on a daily basis. Childhood Stress in
Contemporary Society provides readers with an extensive exploration
of the definition of stress, from basic terminology to the causes
and effects of stress in the daily lives of children and adults.
This book will teach you how to better deal with stress in your own
life and how to share that knowledge with children. Dr. Humphrey
walks you step-by-step through a variety of techniques, exercises,
and games that improve a child's self-image and the confidence
necessary to contend with stressful situations. This book will help
you: spot irregular behavior in children usually associated with
poor stress management help children understand and respond more
appropriately to stressors work with children with special needs
who have additional stress due to their afflictions alleviate or
reduce stressors at home and in school provide the appropriate
level of physical activity to children to decrease tension utilize
relaxation techniques, such as meditation and biofeedback, to
alleviate stress Rich with interviews, surveys, and case studies
focusing on children and caretakers, Childhood Stress in
Contemporary Society is an important manual for helping children in
today's hectic culture. Recent discoveries indicate that children
who associate with adults under stress are very likely to become
stress-ridden themselves; children supervised by adults who do not
cope well with stress can adopt this same inability to cope.
Therefore, this book is vital for those adults who are involved
with the well-being of children.
Stress in College Athletics: Causes, Consequences, Coping addresses
the causes and consequences of stress in college sports and offers
effective coping mechanisms that will help individuals understand
and control stressors and emotions in their environment. Athletic
administrators, coaches, student athletes, parents of athletes,
educators, and social and behavioral science researchers will
benefit from this examination of what stress is, the different
types of stress, and what factors can contribute to anxiety.
Containing insight from hundreds of student athletes, coaches, and
administrators, this vital book offers you proven research, clear
explanations, and recommended suggestions that will enable you to
cope with stress and not let it affect your job or your
game.Examining how both males and females perceive stress, Stress
in College Athletics explores developmental differences between the
genders to explain the ways in which the two groups react to and
deal with stress. Discussing the challenges that you deal with
every day, this valuable book offers you several proven suggestions
and methods to help reduce stress, including: Using coping
techniques, such as physical exercise (other than the sport you
play), recreational activities, muscle relaxation, biofeedback, and
meditation Doing things for others and looking to your own
spirituality in order to alleviate anxiety Eliminating factors such
as fatigue and inferior health in order to avoid the negative
emotions of jealousy, fear, and anger that can lead to tension and
anxiety Learning how to relieve stress in your immediate
environment (on the sidelines, in the audience, or during a test)
through simple, effective, and inconspicuous exercises Adapting
procedures for self-modification of behavior, such as identifying a
behavior you want to change, thinking about the result of that
behavior and how often it occurs, and reforming that conduct
Through practical research, theories about stress and its causes
and effects, and insight from peers, this excellent resource offers
suggestions for further inquiry in the field of college athletics
and stress. Complete and thorough, Stress in College Athletics will
provide you with the necessary tools to help you create a personal
stress management system that will improve your well-being in and
out of the athletic forum.
A guidebook for adults involved in children's sports!
Child Development Through Sports is a commonsense guide for anyone
involved in children's sports, presenting thoughtful analysis with
an emphasis on maximizing the development of a child's social,
emotional, physical, and intellectual capabilities through sports.
Written by Dr. James H. Humphrey, who has been involved in
children's sports at every level for nearly 60 years, the book
stresses the potential contribution sports participation can make
to a child's development and the negative impact it can have if
programs are not conducted in an appropriate manner.
Child Development Through Sports focuses primarily on the risks
and benefits of sports participation for children ages 5-12. This
valuable book addresses health and stress as developmental factors,
how to identify and develop motor skills, the positive and negative
effects of competition, and an overview of the more pressing issues
of children's sports, including supervision, injuries, benefits,
and interest. The book is largely based on extensive surveys and
interviews with proponents and critics of children's sports,
including parents, professional athletes, coaches, school
personnel, and children themselves.
Among the topics Child Development Through Sports addresses are:
the age at which children should begin playing organized sports
which sports are best for children how many sports a child should
play--and how often how to judge a good sports program and much
more! Child Development Through Sports is an essential resource for
parents, teachers, counselors, coaches, and makes a valuable
supplemental text for courses in child development and
sportsmanagement.
Stress in College Athletics: Causes, Consequences, Coping addresses
the causes and consequences of stress in college sports and offers
effective coping mechanisms that will help individuals understand
and control stressors and emotions in their environment. Athletic
administrators, coaches, student athletes, parents of athletes,
educators, and social and behavioral science researchers will
benefit from this examination of what stress is, the different
types of stress, and what factors can contribute to anxiety.
Containing insight from hundreds of student athletes, coaches, and
administrators, this vital book offers you proven research, clear
explanations, and recommended suggestions that will enable you to
cope with stress and not let it affect your job or your
game.Examining how both males and females perceive stress, Stress
in College Athletics explores developmental differences between the
genders to explain the ways in which the two groups react to and
deal with stress. Discussing the challenges that you deal with
every day, this valuable book offers you several proven suggestions
and methods to help reduce stress, including: Using coping
techniques, such as physical exercise (other than the sport you
play), recreational activities, muscle relaxation, biofeedback, and
meditation Doing things for others and looking to your own
spirituality in order to alleviate anxiety Eliminating factors such
as fatigue and inferior health in order to avoid the negative
emotions of jealousy, fear, and anger that can lead to tension and
anxiety Learning how to relieve stress in your immediate
environment (on the sidelines, in the audience, or during a test)
through simple, effective, and inconspicuous exercises Adapting
procedures for self-modification of behavior, such as identifying a
behavior you want to change, thinking about the result of that
behavior and how often it occurs, and reforming that conduct
Through practical research, theories about stress and its causes
and effects, and insight from peers, this excellent resource offers
suggestions for further inquiry in the field of college athletics
and stress. Complete and thorough, Stress in College Athletics will
provide you with the necessary tools to help you create a personal
stress management system that will improve your well-being in and
out of the athletic forum.
Stress can affect anyone regardless of age, sex, creed, or race. It
can rear its head anywhere and anytime, and it has likely been a
fact of life since prehistoric days. While stress is obviously a
concern of all, it has particular resonance among college students,
from freshmen experiencing their first separation from home to
seniors having to find that first job. In addition, students have
to face other worries like time constraints, grades, and financial
woes. Stress also can afflict an entire group, as witnessed by the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. With stress such an
indisputable part of life, it is of critical importance for
individuals to learn to cope with it. This book is geared towards
college courses in stress management, which have been found to
reduce the symptoms of stress and raise self-esteem among students.
College students will find it especially helpful to learn how to
cope with stress at a young age, so as to be ready to face life in
"the real world." Throughout the book are helpful and varied
techniques for dealing with stress, along with "principles of
living" that most people can use in daily life. Examples of these
principles include continuous self-evaluation, talking things over,
recognising one's accomplishments, and taking things less
seriously. Given the need to face and adapt to stressful situations
throughout life, the education offered by this book is informative,
insightful, and practical for everyday use.
Whatever is the world coming to? Eighty-year-olds are running the
Marathon. Card shop are selling birthday greeting cards for
100-year-olds. A physician asks his octogenarian patient if his
parents are still living. There is an increasing number of
grandchildren who are upwards of 50 years of age. And on and on and
on. These days when a statistic regarding life expectancy is
announced it becomes obsolete almost immediately. The oldest of the
old are not only here to stay, but in increasingly larger numbers.
This book is concerned essentially with the behaviours, needs and
interests and other important factors in the lives of those in the
upper age ranges. It is hoped that the information will be useful
In helping them to live a longer and livelier life. This does not
mean that it is restricted reading only for older adults. Younger
persons will also have an interest as it relates not only to older
loved ones but to their own future as well.
Adult Guide to Children's Team Sports
Principles & Practices in Interscholastic Athletics -
Guidelines for Administrators
Recent surveys suggest that while modern-day teenagers face many of
the same problems as their predecessors of a generation ago, these
problems may have more serious repercussions. Today's teenagers
have many decisions to make regarding drugs, sex, violence, and the
like, all of which impact on their lives. A major purpose of this
book is to help both adults and teenagers understand why they
behave as they do, while giving solid information about the
consequence of their behaviours. The book has been prepared
essentially for those persons, particularly parents, teachers, and
other adult 'overseers' who must share in the joys, sorrows, and
other emotional experiences in dealing with teenagers in this
critical seven-year period of their lives.
The purpose of this book is to learn about stress so that you can
take action and control of it. Certain essential steps need to be
taken in dealing with stress. To begin with, it is important to
develop an understanding in terms of what it is and how it can
affect human beings. This book grapples successfully with the facts
necessary to become your own stressologist. Topics include: what is
stress; how we react to stress; causes and effects of stress;
stress and emotional stability; developing a stress management
lifestyle; rest, sleep and stress; reducing stress through
exercise; reducing stress through relaxation; reducing stress
through meditation; reducing stress through biofeedback;
desensitising yourself to stress.
This book is concerned with all levels of athletics -
interscholastic, intercollegiate, club, and professional. Articles
on all aspects of contemporary athletics are invited. Topics
include, but are not limited to, event scheduling, stress, sports
medicine, graduation rates, academic eligibility, gender issues,
commercialization, funding or the lack of it, sports psychology,
sports sociology, parental aggression, coaching, drug use in
athletics, teamwork, philosophy, athletic competition/participation
in relation to life, spectator behavior, officiating, religion in
sports, sports gambling, history of athletics, athlete
administration, ethics, sports management, nutrition, and legal
issues.
Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field
athletics, is a collection of sports events that involve running,
throwing and jumping. This book presents recent articles on
athletics and issues related to athletes.
Sports and athletics are at the focus of attention of millions and
millions of people around the world - regardless of the level of
the sport of athletic competition. There is perhaps more learned
about life on the playing fields than anywhere else. Even the most
disparate people can find common ground on sports or teams. This
book brings together developments in this diverse field.
Stress has increasingly become associated with greater
susceptibility to various illnesses. The condition is also costly
from an economic and financial perspective, but such costs hardly
reflect the human costs of emotional trauma and physical suffering
that result from the illness. Women today are in a situation where
both the monetary and human effects of stress take their toll as
women face unprecedented pressures in accommodating the demands of
home and career and personal family stresses that often result. In
addition to this, while women are prone to the same stressors as
men, they are confronted with potentially unique physical and
psychological stressors of their own. They may also become stress
'carriers' as in the abusive husband and unfair boss relationship.
Ironically, despite these differences women live longer than men,
although collectively they are reported to have more symptoms,
illnesses, intake of drugs and doctor-hospital visits. This
outstanding new book by a pioneer in stress research presents an
essential analysis of this increasingly relevant subject.
Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field
athletics, is a collection of sport events. The word is derived
from the Greek word "athlos" meaning "contest". It is a collection
of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running,
throwing, and jumping. Athletics has become widely spread within
society and as a consequence brought with it many ancillary issues.
Major areas of concern to society outside the pure competition
include: steroid use, role modelling, sport psychology, public
relations, and proper place within various levels of education.
Stress has increasingly become associated with greater
susceptibility to various illnesses. The condition is also costly
from an economic and financial perspective, but such costs hardly
reflect the human costs of emotional trauma and physical suffering
that result from the illness. Women today are in a situation where
both the monetary and human effects of stress take their toll as
women face unprecedented pressures in accommodating the demands of
home and career and personal family stresses that often result. In
addition to this, while women are prone to the same stressors as
men, they are confronted with potentially unique physical and
psychological stressors of their own. They may also become stress
"carriers" as in the abusive husband and unfair boss relationship.
Ironically, despite these differences women live longer than men,
although collectively they are reported to have more symptoms,
illnesses, intake of drugs and doctor-hospital visits. This
outstanding new book by a pioneer in stress research presents an
essential analysis of this increasingly relevant subject.
As documented by health and medical professionals and social and
behavioural scientists, stress has a pervasive presence in our
society. The effects of stress on both the individual and our
culture have received much attention. This anthology contains
twenty essays that are representative of the author's over one
hundred writings about stress.
The purpose of this book is to provide information for adults -
especially parents and teachers - about how they might better
understand total fitness and to encourage them to cultivate it in
our most important resource, our children. In this regard, it is
interesting to note that studies show that parents' physical
activity tends to be significantly related to their child's body
composition, and that the more active the parents are, the more
active their child will be. Further studies show that the average
American pre-schooler watches 30 hours of television a week and
that the average American will have watched nine years of
television by the time he or she is 65 years old. The relationship
that has formed between child television watching and physical
fitness, is that reports show that the greater the time spent in
front of the television, the higher proportion of body fat in that
child. Aside from just providing the statistics and knowledge of
the existence of this growing fitness problem, this significant
book attempts to inform the parents and teachers, and anyone who
truly is concerned about children's health, what efforts must be
made to improve the overall fitness of our children.
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