295 Part 5. 517 Part 6. The Future 543 Author Index 549 Subject Index 578 The Handbook of Stress, Coping, and Health is not so much a handbook as a literature review. Special emphasis has been placed on nursing literature, but it is not limited to that field. Each chapter summarizes the theories relevant to the chapter title, and provides an extensive review of the related research.
Some chapters provide tables of studies giving citation, design, sample, findings, etc.
Appropriate psychological tests for the various theories are described with the theory. Bibliographies are provided at the end of each chapter. That is an advantage for this book since it separates the citations by subject. Chapter 4 is a little different from the other theory specific chapters since it describes the pros and cons of various tests of stress response function. The author index is a rare, and very handy, guide to the location within the text of any author cited.