| Description |
xxi, 598 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
History and present status of the stress concept / Hans Selye -- Specificity and stress research / Jerome E. Singer and Laura M. Davidson -- Anatomy of an illness (as perceived by the patient) / Norman Cousins -- Health psychology : the science and the field / Shelley E. Taylor -- The living world / Rene Dubos -- Toxins, technology, and natural disasters / Andrew Baum -- Stress, coping, and the meaning of work / Edwin A. Locke and M. Susan Taylor -- Uplifts, hassles, and adaptational outcomes in early adolescents / Allen D. Kanner, S. Shirley Feldman, Daniel A. Weinberger, and Martin E. Ford -- The concept of coping / Richard S. Lazarus and Susan Folkman -- Coping and emotion / Susan Folkman and Richard S. Lazarus -- Measurement of coping / Frances Cohen -- The development of hardiness / Salvatore R. Maddi and Suzanne C. Kobasa -- Gender differences in the social moderators of stress / Deborah Belle -- The type A behavior pattern and coronary artery disease : quest for the active ingredients and the elusive mechanism / Logan Wright -- The response to overwhelming stress in children : some introductory comments / E. James Anthony -- Life strains and psychological distress among adults / Leonard I. Pearlin -- Some modes of adaptation : defense / David Mechanic -- Uncertainty and the lives of persons with AIDS / Rose Weitz -- Two decades of research on dying : what do we know about the patient? / Richard Schulz and Janet Schlarb -- The myths of coping with loss / Camille B. Wortman and Roxane Cohen Silver -- Stress management : a new approach to treatment / Ethel Roskies -- Intervention strategies / Richard H. Cox -- Out of the habit trap / Stanton Peele -- Healthy people--healthy business : a critical review of stress management programs in the workplace / Kenneth R. Pelletier and Robert Lutz |
| Summary |
This collection of articles on stress and coping covers stress and its effects, stress and the environment, the concept of coping, coping with the stresses of living and dying, and stress management |
| Analysis |
Adjustment (Psychology) |
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Stress (Psychology) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-571) and index |
| Subject |
Adjustment (Psychology)
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Stress (Psychology)
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Adaptation, Psychological.
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Stress, Psychological.
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| Author |
Lazarus, Richard S., editor
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Monat, Alan, 1945- editor
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| LC no. |
90020507 |
| ISBN |
0231074565 |
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0231074573 |
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9780231074568 |
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9780231074575 |
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