Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning psychologist and psychotherapist. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London. He is the UK′s first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at Middlesex University. He has authored/edited over 50 books including The Beginner′s Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2015). He is Co-editor of the European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice. Currently he is Honorary President of the International Stress Management Association; President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology; Founder Co-Chair of the London Branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies; a Founder Director and Vice President of the Society of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and a Director and Deputy Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His interests include jazz, art and coastal walking.

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• VOLUME ONE: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEORIES: STRESSA Syndrome Produced by Diverse Nocuous Agents - Hans SelyeDoes Fight or Flight Need Updating? - H. Bracha et al.Freeze, Flight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum - H. Stefan BrachaProtective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators - Bruce McEwenMemory Formation under Stress: Quantity and Quality - Lars Schwabe, Oliver Wolf and Melly OitziSearching for the Structure of Coping: A Review and Critique of Category Systems for Classifying Ways of Coping - Ellen Skinner, Kathleen Edge, Jeffrey Altman and Hayley SherwoodJob Burnout: New Directions in Research and Intervention - Christina MaslachDoes the stress in Childhood and Adolescence Matter? A Psychological Perspective - Bernard LauWhy Should Men and Women Marry and Have Children? Parenthood, Marital Status and Self-perceived Stress among Canadians - Ali Muhammad and Alain GagnonThe Role of Gender in Workplace Stress: A Critical Literature Review - Kristina Gyllensten and Stephen PalmerUnderstanding the Relationship between Work Stress and U.S. Research institutions Failure to Retain Underrepresented Minority (URM) Faculty - Ruth Enid ZambranaThe Wear and Tear of Daily Stressors on Mental Health - Jacqueline Mogle, Martin Sliwinski and David AlmeidaCognitive Activation Theory of Stress: An Integrative Theoretical Approach to Work Stress - James Meurs and Pamela PerrewéAssociation of Psychosocial Risk Factors with Risk of Acute Myocardinal Infarction in 11119 Cases and 13648 Controls from 52 Countries (The Interheart Study): Case-Control Study - Annika Rosengren, Steven Hawken, Stephanie Õunpuu, Karen Sliwa, Mohammad Zubaid, Wael Almahmeed, Kathleen Blackett, Chitr Sitthi-amorn, Hiroshi Sato and Salim YusufJob Stress in National Health Service managers: A Qualitative Exploration of the Stressor-Strain Health Relationship. The ‘fit’ and ‘unfit’ manager - Dinah Jenkins and Stephen PalmerThe Relative Impact of Workplace Bullying as a Social Stressors At Work - Lars Johan Hauge, Anders Skogstrand and Ståle EinarsenWorking Life and Mental Health - A Challenge To Psychiatry? - Lennart LeviVOLUME TWO: THE MEASUREMENT OF STRESSLong-term Stability of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Syndromes - Peter LovibondThe Short-form version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21): Construct validity and normative Data in a Large Non-Clinical Sample - Julie Henry and John CrawfordThe Development of a Six-Item Short-Form of the State Scale of the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) - Theresa Marteau and Hilary BekkerPsychometric Properties and Standardised Data for Questionnaires Measuring Negative Affect, Dispositional Style and Daily Hassles. A Nation-Wide Sample - Berit Scott and Lennart MelinPsychometric Properties and Standardised Data for Questionnaires Measuring Negative Affect, Dispositional Style and Daily Hassles. A Nation-Wide Sample - Leonard Derogatis and Patricia ClearyThe Validity of Two Versions of the Ghq in the Who Study Of Mental Illness in General Health Care - D.P. Goldberg, R. Gater, N. Sartorius, T.B. Ustun, M. Piccinelli, O. Gureje and C. RutterValidity of the GHQ and SCL anxiety and Depression Scales: A Comparative Study - Maarten KoeterStress Mapping: A Visual Technique to Aid Counselling or Training - Stephen Palmer‘Management standards’ and work-related stress in the UK: Policy Background and Science - Colin Mackay, Rosanna Cousins, Peter Kelly, Steve Lee and Ron McCaig‘Management Standards’ and Work-Related Stress in the UK: Practical Development - Rosanna Cousins, Colin Mackay, Simon Clarke, Chris Kelly, Peter Kelly and Ron McCaigModelling Occupational Stress and Employee Health and Wellbeing in a Chinese Higher Education Institution - Xiaoli Sang, Stephen Teo, Cary Cooper and Philip BohleOccupational Stress in Romanian Intensive Care Nurses: A Multicentric Study - MirelaBidilica, VioricaNedelcu, Raluca Sfetcu, Daniela Ionescu and Dan CorneciPsychosocial Risks and Work-related Stress in Developing Countries: The Need for a Multilevel Intervention Framework - Evelyn Kortum and Stavroula LekaAn Example of a Stress Policy - HSEThe Measurement of Effort–Reward Imbalance At Work: European Comparisons - Johannes Siegrist, Dagmar Starke, Tarani Chandola, Isabelle Godin, Michael Marmot, Isabelle Niedhammer and Richard PeterTen Years On: A Review of Recent Research on the Job Demand–Control (-Support) Model and Psychological Well-Being - Jan Häusser , Andreas Mojzisch , Miriam Niesel and Stefan Schulz-HardtSystematic Review: Work-related stress and the HSE Management Standards - K. Brookes, C. Limbert, C. Deacy, A. O’Reilly, S. Scott and K. ThirlawayNew, Normative, English-Sample Data for the Short Form Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4) - Sheryl Warttig, Mark Forshaw, Jane South and Alan WhiteVOLUME THREE: THE MANAGEMENT OF STRESS (INDIVIDUAL, GROUP, ORGANISATIONAL AND COMMUNITY)Comprehensive Knowledge for Stress Management Practitioners - ISMA UKStress Management for Employees: An Evidence Based Approach - Stephen Palmer and Kristina GyllenstenGuidelines for Counselling in the Workplace - BACPWorking with a Client Suffering from Workplace Stress in a Primary Care Setting: A Cognitive Behavioural Case Study - KristinaGyllensten and Stephen PalmerPRACTICE: A Model Suitable for Coaching, Counselling, Psychotherapy and Stress Management - Stephen PalmerCoping Imagery - Stephen PalmerInference Chaining: A Rational Coaching Technique - Stephen PalmerRational Coaching: A Cognitive Behavioural Approach - Stephen PalmerRational Coaching with Perfectionistic Leaders to Overcome Avoidance of Leadership Responsibilities - Victoria Ellam-Dyson and Stephen PalmerSPACE: A Psychological Model for Use within Cognitive and Behavioural Coaching, Therapy and Stress Management - Nick Edgerton and Stephen PalmerReducing Stress in the Workplace - Stephen PalmerEffects of Low-Dose Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR-ld) on Working Adults - Maryanna Klatt, Janet Buckworth and William MalarkeyGardening Promotes Neuroendocrine and Affective Restoration from Stress - Agnes Van Den Berg and Mariëtte CustersJob Strain as a Risk Factor for Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity: An Individual Participant Meta-analysis of up to 170 000 Men and Women - Eleonor Fransson et alProcess Evaluation for Organizational Stress and Well-Being Interventions: Implications for Theory Methods and Practice - Caroline Biron and Maria Karanika-MurrayEvaluating organizational-level work stress interventions: Beyond traditional methods - Tom Cox, Maria Karanika, Amanda Griffiths and Jonathan HoudmontThe Benefits of Interventions for Work-Related Stress - Jac van der Klink, Roland Blonk, Aart Schene and Frank van DijkAutopsy of a Failure: Evaluating Process and Contextual Issues in an Organizational-Level Work Stress Intervention - Caroline Biron, Caroline Gatrell and Cary CooperStress Reduction Through Psychoeducation: A Meta-Analytic Review - Tom Van Daele, Dirk Hermans, Chantal Van Audenhove and Omer Van den BerghPerceived Organizational Support as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Organizational stressors and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors - Ajay Jain, Sabir Giga and Cary CooperPerceptions of stress and Stress Interventions in Finance Organizations: Overcoming Resistance Towards Counselling - Kristina Gyllensten, Stephen Palmer and Jacqui FarrantsA Multimodal Assessment and Rational Emotive Behavioural Approach to Stress Counselling: A Case Study - Dinah Jenkins and Stephen Palmer

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning psychologist and psychotherapist. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London. He is the UK′s first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at Middlesex University. He has authored/edited over 50 books including The Beginner′s Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2015). He is Co-editor of the European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice. Currently he is Honorary President of the International Stress Management Association; President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology; Founder Co-Chair of the London Branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies; a Founder Director and Vice President of the Society of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and a Director and Deputy Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His interests include jazz, art and coastal walking.

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• VOLUME ONE: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEORIES: STRESSA Syndrome Produced by Diverse Nocuous Agents - Hans SelyeDoes Fight or Flight Need Updating? - H. Bracha et al.Freeze, Flight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum - H. Stefan BrachaProtective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators - Bruce McEwenMemory Formation under Stress: Quantity and Quality - Lars Schwabe, Oliver Wolf and Melly OitziSearching for the Structure of Coping: A Review and Critique of Category Systems for Classifying Ways of Coping - Ellen Skinner, Kathleen Edge, Jeffrey Altman and Hayley SherwoodJob Burnout: New Directions in Research and Intervention - Christina MaslachDoes the stress in Childhood and Adolescence Matter? A Psychological Perspective - Bernard LauWhy Should Men and Women Marry and Have Children? Parenthood, Marital Status and Self-perceived Stress among Canadians - Ali Muhammad and Alain GagnonThe Role of Gender in Workplace Stress: A Critical Literature Review - Kristina Gyllensten and Stephen PalmerUnderstanding the Relationship between Work Stress and U.S. Research institutions Failure to Retain Underrepresented Minority (URM) Faculty - Ruth Enid ZambranaThe Wear and Tear of Daily Stressors on Mental Health - Jacqueline Mogle, Martin Sliwinski and David AlmeidaCognitive Activation Theory of Stress: An Integrative Theoretical Approach to Work Stress - James Meurs and Pamela PerrewéAssociation of Psychosocial Risk Factors with Risk of Acute Myocardinal Infarction in 11119 Cases and 13648 Controls from 52 Countries (The Interheart Study): Case-Control Study - Annika Rosengren, Steven Hawken, Stephanie Õunpuu, Karen Sliwa, Mohammad Zubaid, Wael Almahmeed, Kathleen Blackett, Chitr Sitthi-amorn, Hiroshi Sato and Salim YusufJob Stress in National Health Service managers: A Qualitative Exploration of the Stressor-Strain Health Relationship. The ‘fit’ and ‘unfit’ manager - Dinah Jenkins and Stephen PalmerThe Relative Impact of Workplace Bullying as a Social Stressors At Work - Lars Johan Hauge, Anders Skogstrand and Ståle EinarsenWorking Life and Mental Health - A Challenge To Psychiatry? - Lennart LeviVOLUME TWO: THE MEASUREMENT OF STRESSLong-term Stability of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Syndromes - Peter LovibondThe Short-form version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21): Construct validity and normative Data in a Large Non-Clinical Sample - Julie Henry and John CrawfordThe Development of a Six-Item Short-Form of the State Scale of the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) - Theresa Marteau and Hilary BekkerPsychometric Properties and Standardised Data for Questionnaires Measuring Negative Affect, Dispositional Style and Daily Hassles. A Nation-Wide Sample - Berit Scott and Lennart MelinPsychometric Properties and Standardised Data for Questionnaires Measuring Negative Affect, Dispositional Style and Daily Hassles. A Nation-Wide Sample - Leonard Derogatis and Patricia ClearyThe Validity of Two Versions of the Ghq in the Who Study Of Mental Illness in General Health Care - D.P. Goldberg, R. Gater, N. Sartorius, T.B. Ustun, M. Piccinelli, O. Gureje and C. RutterValidity of the GHQ and SCL anxiety and Depression Scales: A Comparative Study - Maarten KoeterStress Mapping: A Visual Technique to Aid Counselling or Training - Stephen Palmer‘Management standards’ and work-related stress in the UK: Policy Background and Science - Colin Mackay, Rosanna Cousins, Peter Kelly, Steve Lee and Ron McCaig‘Management Standards’ and Work-Related Stress in the UK: Practical Development - Rosanna Cousins, Colin Mackay, Simon Clarke, Chris Kelly, Peter Kelly and Ron McCaigModelling Occupational Stress and Employee Health and Wellbeing in a Chinese Higher Education Institution - Xiaoli Sang, Stephen Teo, Cary Cooper and Philip BohleOccupational Stress in Romanian Intensive Care Nurses: A Multicentric Study - MirelaBidilica, VioricaNedelcu, Raluca Sfetcu, Daniela Ionescu and Dan CorneciPsychosocial Risks and Work-related Stress in Developing Countries: The Need for a Multilevel Intervention Framework - Evelyn Kortum and Stavroula LekaAn Example of a Stress Policy - HSEThe Measurement of Effort–Reward Imbalance At Work: European Comparisons - Johannes Siegrist, Dagmar Starke, Tarani Chandola, Isabelle Godin, Michael Marmot, Isabelle Niedhammer and Richard PeterTen Years On: A Review of Recent Research on the Job Demand–Control (-Support) Model and Psychological Well-Being - Jan Häusser , Andreas Mojzisch , Miriam Niesel and Stefan Schulz-HardtSystematic Review: Work-related stress and the HSE Management Standards - K. Brookes, C. Limbert, C. Deacy, A. O’Reilly, S. Scott and K. ThirlawayNew, Normative, English-Sample Data for the Short Form Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4) - Sheryl Warttig, Mark Forshaw, Jane South and Alan WhiteVOLUME THREE: THE MANAGEMENT OF STRESS (INDIVIDUAL, GROUP, ORGANISATIONAL AND COMMUNITY)Comprehensive Knowledge for Stress Management Practitioners - ISMA UKStress Management for Employees: An Evidence Based Approach - Stephen Palmer and Kristina GyllenstenGuidelines for Counselling in the Workplace - BACPWorking with a Client Suffering from Workplace Stress in a Primary Care Setting: A Cognitive Behavioural Case Study - KristinaGyllensten and Stephen PalmerPRACTICE: A Model Suitable for Coaching, Counselling, Psychotherapy and Stress Management - Stephen PalmerCoping Imagery - Stephen PalmerInference Chaining: A Rational Coaching Technique - Stephen PalmerRational Coaching: A Cognitive Behavioural Approach - Stephen PalmerRational Coaching with Perfectionistic Leaders to Overcome Avoidance of Leadership Responsibilities - Victoria Ellam-Dyson and Stephen PalmerSPACE: A Psychological Model for Use within Cognitive and Behavioural Coaching, Therapy and Stress Management - Nick Edgerton and Stephen PalmerReducing Stress in the Workplace - Stephen PalmerEffects of Low-Dose Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR-ld) on Working Adults - Maryanna Klatt, Janet Buckworth and William MalarkeyGardening Promotes Neuroendocrine and Affective Restoration from Stress - Agnes Van Den Berg and Mariëtte CustersJob Strain as a Risk Factor for Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity: An Individual Participant Meta-analysis of up to 170 000 Men and Women - Eleonor Fransson et alProcess Evaluation for Organizational Stress and Well-Being Interventions: Implications for Theory Methods and Practice - Caroline Biron and Maria Karanika-MurrayEvaluating organizational-level work stress interventions: Beyond traditional methods - Tom Cox, Maria Karanika, Amanda Griffiths and Jonathan HoudmontThe Benefits of Interventions for Work-Related Stress - Jac van der Klink, Roland Blonk, Aart Schene and Frank van DijkAutopsy of a Failure: Evaluating Process and Contextual Issues in an Organizational-Level Work Stress Intervention - Caroline Biron, Caroline Gatrell and Cary CooperStress Reduction Through Psychoeducation: A Meta-Analytic Review - Tom Van Daele, Dirk Hermans, Chantal Van Audenhove and Omer Van den BerghPerceived Organizational Support as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Organizational stressors and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors - Ajay Jain, Sabir Giga and Cary CooperPerceptions of stress and Stress Interventions in Finance Organizations: Overcoming Resistance Towards Counselling - Kristina Gyllensten, Stephen Palmer and Jacqui FarrantsA Multimodal Assessment and Rational Emotive Behavioural Approach to Stress Counselling: A Case Study - Dinah Jenkins and Stephen Palmer