Principles and practice of stress management
By: edited by Paul M. Lehrer, Robert L. Woolfolk, Wesley E. Sime ; foreword by David H. Barlow.
Contributors: Lehrer, Paul M.; Woolfolk, Robert L.; Sime, Wesley E.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 734
ISBN-13: 9781593850005
Subjects: Stress management; Stress, Psychological -- prevention & control; Stress, Psychological -- therapy; Relaxation Techniques
Description: Provides a comprehensive review of effective stress management techniques and their applications for treating psychological problems and enhancing physical health and performance. Leading experts present in-depth descriptions of their respective methods, including detailed case examples and step-by-step implementation guidelines. The third edition has been restructured and extensively rewritten to reflect significant empirical, theoretical, and clinical advances. New chapter topics include mindfulness meditation, neurofeedback, EMDR, breathing retraining, heart rate variability biofeedback, exercise therapy, Qigong, sport psychophysiology, and basic mechanisms of stress and relaxation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptual issues underlying stress management / Robert L. Woolfolk, Paul M. Lehrer & Lesley A. Allen; title: Psychophysiological mechanisms of stress: a foundation for the stress management therapies / Angele McGrady; title: The psychology of relaxation / Jonathan C. Smith; title: Progressive relaxation: origins, principles, and clinical applications / F.J. McGuigan & Paul M. Lehrer; title: Progressive relaxation: abbreviated methods / Douglas A. Bernstein, Charles R. Carlson & John E. Schmidt; title: Hypnosis in the management of pain and stress: mechanisms, findings, and procedures / Robert A. Karlin; title: The autogenic training method of J. H. Schultz / Wolfgang Linden; title: Autogenic feedback training in psychophysiological therapy and stress management / Patricia A. Norris, Stephen L. Fahrion & Leo O. Oikawa; title: Psychophysiological perspectives on stress-related and anxiety disorders / Richard N. Gevirtz; title: Biofeedback training to increase heart rate variability / Paul M. Lehrer; title: Neurofeedback for stress management / Michael Thompson & Lynda Thompson; title: Whole-body breathing: a systems perspective on respiratory retraining / Jan van Dixhoorn; title: Exercise therapy for stress management / Wesley E. Sime; title: Modern forms of mantra meditation / Patricia Carrington; title: Mindfulness meditation / Jean L. Kristeller; title: Qigong therapy for stress management / Kevin W. Chen; title: Yoga as a therapeutic intervention / Sat Bir S. Khalsa; title: Cognitive approaches to stress and stress management / James L. Pretzer & Aaron T. Beck; title: Stress inoculation training: a preventative and treatment approach / Donald Meichenbaum; title: Music therapy: applications to stress management / Cheryl Dileo & Joke Bradt; title: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and stress: research, theory, and practical suggestions / Lee Hyer & Bonnie Kushner; title: Pharmacological approach to the management of stress and anxiety disorders / Laszlo A. Papp; title: Sport psychophysiology and peak performance applications of stress management / Paul Davis, Wesley E. Sime & James Robertson; title: Differential effects of stress management therapies on emotional and behavioral disorders / Jonathan M. Feldman ... [et al.]; title: Stress management and relaxation therapies for somatic disorders / Nicholas D. Giardino, Angele McGrady & Frank Andrasik; title: Research on clinical issues in stress management / Paul M. Lehrer & Robert L. Woolfolk.