Praeger Handbook on Stress and Coping

Alan Monat is Associate Dean at the College of Science, California State University, East Bay. He has done consulting and workshops and also taught Stress and Coping for 30 years.The late Richard S. Lazarus was an eminent, internationally known figure in psychology, one of the field's foremost authorities on emotion and stress. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship, was a Professor of psychology for 45 years at the University of California at Berkeley, and authored 13 earlier books.Gretchen Maria Reevy is a Lecturer in Psychology at California State University, East Bay. She has taught Stress and Coping for 11 years.

Stress is a phenomenon that is intuitively grasped by most people, yet its scientific construct and clinical applications are surprisingly unsettled while also quite promising, as revealed in this valuable anthology. The editors-Monat, noted scholar and researcher Richard S. Lazarus, and Gretchen Reevy have provided a diverse collection of previously published articles on various aspects of the subject, including research reviews, theoretical discussions, and personal narratives (e.g., Lance Armstrong on battling cancer). The book is organized into five sections covering a description of the stress concept and its physiological and psychological manifestations, stress and illness, post-traumatic stress disorder, and stress management and coping styles. While most of the well-chosen articles are scholarly, some, particularly those on handling stress, could be useful to self-help-minded general readers….As an authoritative, wide-ranging, and timely compilation on a significant contemporary problem, this work is recommended for academic libraries and allied health collections.

• Figures, Tables, Boxes, and IllustrationsAbbreviationsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Stress ConceptIntroduction to The Stress Concept"Chapter 1: Stress: A Brief HistoryThe Twentieth Century: From the 1950s to Richard LazarusChapter 2: Stress and Emotion: A New SynthesisStress and EmotionChapter 3: Work StressMacro-Level Work StressorsChapter 4: The Wisdom of the Receptors: Neuropeptides, the Emotions, and BodymindChapter 5: Allostatic Load: When Protection Gives Way to DamagePart II: Stress and IllnessIntroduction to Stress and IllnessChapter 6: Dr. Dean Ornishs Program for Reversing Heart DiseaseChapter 7: Racial Differences in Attitudes Regarding Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and TreatmentChapter 8: Stress : Myth, Theory and ResearchStress : Health and IllnessChapter 9: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of DepressionChapter 10: Why Zebras Dont Get UlcersStress, Metabolism, and Liquidating Your AssetsChapter 11: Psychological Factors and Immunity in HIV InfectionStress, Coping, Social Support, and Intervention OutcomesPart III: Posttraumatic StressIntroduction to Posttraumatic StressChapter 12: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and TerrorismChapter 13: Neuropsychological Processes in Posttraumatic Stress DisorderChapter 14: Growing Up Under the Gun: Children and AdolescentsCoping with Violent NeighborhoodsGlossaryIndexContributorsVolume II:Figures and TablesAbbreviationsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart IV: The Coping ConceptIntroduction to The Coping ConceptChapter 16: What Does It Mean to Cope?Chapter 17: Cultivating Optimism in Childhood and AdolescenceChapter 18: The Story of Hardiness: Twenty Years of Theorizing, Research, and PracticeChapter 19: Racing Against Your HeartChapter 20: Sex-related Differences in the Social SupportStress RelationshipPart V: Examples of CopingIntroduction to Examples of CopingChapter 21: Its Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to LifeChapter 22: Experiences in Early Stage Alzheimers Disease: Understanding the Paradox of Acceptance and DenialChapter 23: Coping with Test Situations: Resources, Strategies, and Adaptational OutcomesChapter 24: The Black Scholar Interviews Maya AngelouPart VI: Stress ManagementIntroduction to Stress ManagementChapter 25: Massage Therapy EffectsChapter 26: What We Really Know about Mindfulness-based Stress ReductionChapter 27: Yoga for Stress Reduction and Injury Prevention at WorkChapter 28: Psychotherapy : A Cognitive PerspectiveChapter 29: Stress and DietChapter 30: Exercise Treatment for Major Depression: Maintenance of Therapeutic BenefitChapter 31: Attitudes and Beliefs about 12-Step Groups among Addiction Treatment Clients and Clinicians: Identifying Obstacles to ParticipationGlossaryIndexContributors