Stress and health
Subtitle: research and clinical applications
By: edited by Dianna T. Kenny ... [et al.].
Contributors: Kenny, Dianna T.
Series: Biobehavioural perspectives on health and disease prevention,; v. 1
Publisher: Harwood Academic; CRC Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Medicine, Psychosomatic.; Stress (Psychology) -- Health aspects.; Stress management -- Health aspects.; Stress, Psychological -- physiopathology.; Stress, Psychological -- prevention & control.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Introduction; title: 1 Background and overview to stress and health: Research and; title: clinical applications 1; title: John G. Carlson; title: Section 2 Biological, Physiological and Psychological Bases of; title: Stress; title: 2 The role of oscillations in self-regulation: Their contribution; title: to homeostasis 27; title: Nicholas Giardino, Paul Lehrer and Jonathan Feldman; title: 3 The physiology of stress 53; title: Richard Gevirtz; title: 4 Psychological foundations of stress and coping:; title: A developmental perspective 73; title: Dianna T. Kenny; title: Section 3 Health Consequences of Stress; title: 5 Chronic pain: Neural basis and interactions with stress 105; title: David J. Tracey, Judith Walker and John J. Carmody; title: 6 Stress, senescence and longevity: How are they connected? 127; title: Paul Rosch; title: 7 Stress and sexual function 139; title: Marita P. McCabe; title: Section 4 Management of Stress and Stress-related Disorders; title: 8 Why might stress management methods be effective? 151; title: F. Joseph McGuigan; title: 9 Biofeedback and stress 163; title: Michael G. McKee and Jerome F. Kiffer; title: 10 Stress management: What can we learn from the meditative; title: disciplines? 179; title: Johann Stoyva; title: 11 Behavior change following affect shift: A model for the; title: treatment of stress disorders 195; title: John L. Sheppard; title: 12 Stress management in health education 223; title: Joe Macdonald Wallace; title: 13 Stress management and prevention on a European; title: community level: Options and obstacles 229; title: Lennart Levi; title: 14 Cognitive-behavioral treatment of insomnia: Knitting up; title: the ravelled sleeve of care 243; title: Richard R. Bootzin; title: 15 Cognitive-behavioral theory, research, and treatment of; title: trauma disorders 267; title: John G. Carlson and Claude M. Chemtob; title: Section 5 Stress, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer; title: 16 Personality as a risk factor in cancer and coronary heart; title: disease 291; title: Hans J. Eysenck; title: 17 Psychosocial aspects of cancer control 319; title: Rob Sanson-Fisher and Billie Bonevski; title: 18 Caffeine and stress 335; title: Jack E. James; title: 19 Implementation of relaxation therapy within a cardiac; title: rehabilitation setting 355; title: Jan van Dixhoorn; title: Section 6 Occupational Stress; title: 20 Occupational stress: Reflections on theory and practice 375; title: Dianna T. Kenny; title: 21 Measuring stress in the workplace: The Job Stress Survey 397; title: Charles Spielberger, Eric Reheiser, John Reheiser and Peter R. Vagg; title: 22 The frustration of success: Type A behavior, occupational; title: stress and cardiovascular disease 411; title: Donald G. Byrne; title: 23 Stress in academe: Some recent research findings 437; title: Anthony H. Winefield.