Title: LIFE STRESS
First published: 1982
Description: Features extensive coverage of all forms of stress and its effect on man. As a reference it provides vital information and aid in the medical field and in fields related to stress disorders It includes issues related to stress as a factor in human evolution; stress and animal models of disease; activation, emotion and stress; basic concepts in psychophysiological personality research; psychosocial stress and illness; biopsychosocial approaches to stress; the community and stress; stress and terrorism as a form of communication; life event changes. A special section is devoted to life stress and its influence on children, women, and families; child abuse; working women on the treadmill; violence against women; geriatric stress; rape victims, and ethnic stress.
Subjects: Stress (psychology)
LC classification: 78 - 8300