Antoni provides a complete clinical framework for health professionals who wish to offer group psychosocial support to breast cancer patients.  The       work focuses on training therapists to help group members cope with the diagnosis and treatment while also providing empirical validation for the        program’s techniques and providing a session-by-session set of guidelines for each module of the program.

The participant’s workbook presents valuable psycho-educational and psychotherapeutic components that teach women coping with breast cancer how to use empirically supported skills such as meditation and relaxation exercises to overcome otherwise overwhelming stressors.

Antoni provides a complete clinical framework for health professionals who wish to offer group psychosocial support to breast cancer patients.  The work focuses on training therapists to help group members cope with the diagnosis and treatment while also providing empirical validation for the program’s techniques and providing a session-by-session set of guidelines for each module of the program.

This volume addresses questions surrounding the increasingly diverse and complex family situations of stress and crisis.  With an eye toward more culturally inclusive theories, the selected readings address how culture and context both aid and impede family resilience. 

Why do some families survive stressful situations while others fall apart?  Can a family’s beliefs and values be used as a predictor of vulnerability to stress?  And, can family stress be prevented?  Boss explores both the larger context surrounding families and stress and the inner context, which includes perceptions and meanings.  Boss devotes significant coverage to a new stressor situation, ambiguous loss, along with its potential effect on perception, or boundary ambiguity.  Both are relatively new constructs that provide critical contributions to a more postmodern family stress theory. 

Psychological stress is characteristically presented when a person experiences nonfinite loss.  Bruce and Schultz present therapeutic principles of nonfinite loss therapy, including preserving identity, restoring control, and honoring the significance of the loss.  They explore specific therapeutic methods through realistic case studies that examine the grieving process.

Clarke and Cooper take a risk management approach to stress evaluation in the workplace, offering practical guidelines for the audit, assessment , and mitigation of workplace stressors.  Chapters include environmental safety factors, psychological safety factors, job stress and work-related accidents, risk assessment methods, and risk evaluation. 

This volume provides an overview of emerging themes in dementia research and presents a broad array of practical strategies for reducing caregiver distress.  Innovative approaches include the value of partnering with primary care physicians to improve quality of life for both patient and caregiver and the use of technological advances to help distressed caregivers.  A timely, cutting edge book written for clinicians of varying backgrounds who provide direct services to families of those with dementia.

Dobransky presents a new system of brief, solution-focused psychoanalysis which takes all the common, everyday words, like “stress,” “self-esteem,” “failure,” and “success,” but roots them in the real science of the major schools of psychology in one, easy synthetic model.

Workers in the service industry face unique types of stressors and levels of stress appear to be worsening.  Many workers and organizations now recognize work stress as a significant personal and organizational cost, and see the need to evaluate a range of organizational issues that present psychosocial hazards to workers.  This volume provides readers with a comprehensive review of the main sources of stress in a range of professions, and the implications for intervention. 

Everly and Lating present a guide to both the clinically relevant physiology and treatment of the human stress response.  The volume covers stress and the immune system, posttraumatic stress and crisis intervention, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), Crisis Management Briefings in response to mass disasters and terrorism, Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), spirituality and religion as stress management tools, dietary factors and stress, and psychopharmacologic intervenion in the human stress response. 

This book explains how to apply brief, existing, generic treatments to help manage patients presenting symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.  The recommended brief treatments are guided by sound assessment methods that can be verified empirically.

The authors conducted a study to explore issues of stress, support, and coping with parenting from the perspectives of parents themselves, looking not just at the issues for families in difficulties but also at parents who, despite having less than optimal social circumstances, were coping well with parenting.  Ghate and Hazel examine community-level poverty and its relationship to family and individual problems such as low income, poor mental health, and child behavioral difficulties. 

Responding to psychic pain connects the writer to the work in important, even crucial, ways.  Increasingly more writing groups are being formed that focus exclusively on trauma, or on life-altering events.  Survivor groups that form to discuss topics dealing with their illness or calamities seem to find relief and clarity by generating the words that lend substance to their painful emotions.  Harris applies the principles of therapeutic writing to such life experiences as mental illness, suicide, racism, domestic abuse, and genocide.  She traces the odyssey of a diverse group of writers -- John Keats, Derek Walcott, Jane Kenyon, Michael S. Harper, Robert Lowell, and Ai, as well as student writers -- who have used their writing to work through and past such personal traumas. 

This work presents an overview of research on the psychological and societal consequences of ecological disasters, providing in-depth case studies of most of the major incidents that have occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.  It can serve as a resource for practitioners and policymakers dealing with current and future ecological calamities and may help them to define an adequate response to the complex public health challenges these incidents represent.

For over 20 years, Horowitz has led the field in the assessment and treatment of stress response syndromes such as acute stress reactions, posttraumatic stress disorder, and complicated grief.  This work provides a full exposition of a brief, integrative, cognitive-dynamic treatment approach to these disorders.  Biopsychosocial in the fullest sense, his psychotherapeutic model is anchored in an elegant conception, tested in clinical research, and illustrated with excellent clinical examples. 

This volume shares the expertise of clinicians in explaining the pain and suffering associated with high risk populations.  Key concepts associated with pain assessment are shared, and the concepts of pain and suffering are expanded by identifying several types of psychological pain, including post traumatic stress disorder.

This work discusses the theoretical aspects of stress and hope as well as the nature of their interrelationships.  It deals with coping processes of individuals or groups that have been exposed to various situations of stress, and it illuminates the role of hope in these processes.  The situations include a variety of psychological, physical, and social stressors, such as racial prejudice, illness, and imprisonment. 

Most health care providers believe that between 80 and 85 percent of health problems are stress-related.  Kenney describes the physiology of the mind/body interactions and typical stressors women experience.  She identifies common symptoms of stress-related health problems, and discusses effective stress management strategies to reduce such.

This volume examines the possibility that religious involvement might affect physical health through known neuroendocrine and immune mechanisms.  Specific chapters focus on “Understanding how stress affects the physical body,” “Psychosocial stress, social networked, and susceptibility to infection,” and “Psychological stress and autoimmune disease.”

This text can enhance a clinician’s insight and understanding of circumstances, personality correlates, and dynamics in response to traumatic events.  One of the book’s primary strengths is the inclusion of culturally diverse populations and varied traumatic stressors.  Another is the focus on theory-based research.  A third useful contribution is the inclusion of recommendations for designing research and intervention strategies, which include an emphasis on attention to cultural and other contextual factors.

This volume examines the effects of threat, stress, and traumatic events, including acts of terror, on children and youth.  It is intended to help those who care for children to support resolution and recovery and illustrates important ways to prevent traumatic situations from having lifelong, negative impacts.

In lucid, easy-to-follow language, Mate summarizes the latest scientific findings about the role that stress and individual emotional makeup play in an array of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, cancer, and ALS, among others.

Melmed analyzes the mind-body interplay from a physiological viewpoint while drawing on diverse disciplines to demonstrate in a well-rounded way the scientific basis, clinical picture, and management of psychosomatic disorders.  He provides a comprehensive analysis of how stress mediates psychosomatic conditions and -- for the first time -- a description of the physiological basis of the placebo response.  Melmed also includes a unifying account of the effects of stress on the immune system consistent with the principles of modern immunology.

Experience suggests that dyslexics are particularly vulnerable to experiencing stress.  This is the first book to present documented evidence on this subject.  Chapters include stress factors in early education, adolescence, and college, as well as in the workplace and within the family.

Mirowsky and Ross argue that inequalities in social class and status have emotional consequences (unhappiness, stress, and despair) that can be measured from the results of meaningful survey instruments.  Those findings call into question the individual diagnosis categories of much clinical psychology. 

Oxytocin is the hormone involved in bonding, sex, and childbirth, as well as in relaxation and feelings of calm.  It is the mirror image of the stress hormone, adrenaline, which triggers the “fight or flight” systems in the body.  Moberg addresses the potentially beneficial applications of this hormone in reducing anxiety states, stress, addictions, and problems of childbirth. 

What is unique about the experience of being a black woman in America that places her at higher risk for morbidity and mortality, especially during pregnancy?  Reproductive health outcomes not only reflect the immediate medical, social, political, environmental, and economic status of women and children in our society, but also influence health status over a lifetime.  This volume describes how women’s experience of race, ethnicity, and gender translates into experiences that in turn provide the settings and exposures that influence health and disease in Central Harlem.

O’Connell presents a new model of stress based upon Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT).  Covered are how the solution-focused approach to stress counselling differs from a problem-focused approach, examination of the theoretical foundations of the solution-focused model, and description of the solution-focused process with identification and explanation of the key interventions used by the counsellor. 

This is volume one of a research series devoted to the examination of occupational stress, health, and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress.  Papers included examine coping processes as well as types of coping.  Dewe proposes that the transactional perspective might be the best organizing concept that will sustain coping research over the next decade.  Beehr and Glazer introduce culture as a factor that might alter the relationship among stressors, strain, and social support.  Eden proposes ways in which managers and employees might use respites to maximize relief from cumulative burnout.  Hurrell examines the role of psychosocial factors and musculoskeletal disorders.

This is volume two of a research series devoted to the examination of occupational stress, health, and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress.  Chapters address the relationship among job stress and occupational health factors.  Bliese, Jex, and Halverson examine the multilevel modeling data analytic technique and provide specific examples as to how this has been used to analyze occupational stress data.  Siegrist introduces a specific approach to examining the adverse health effects of an unfavorable psychosocial work environment.  Murphy provides an invaluable history of NIOSH job stress research that should serve as a must read for anyone interested in the field.

Reed deals with the prevention and control of psychological stress by presenting a model of suffering and its common characteristics so that caregivers can learn to identify, relieve, and prevent it. 

Resick provides a well-written, accessible overview of traumatic stress studies.  She reviews the full range of clinical disorders that may result from extreme stress, with emphasis on PTSD.  The book looks at psychological theories of stress and trauma, the biology of stress and trauma reactions, and treatment of trauma-related psychological problems.

Research now indicates that stress is linked to almost 80 percent of all disease and illness.  Eating disorders are no exception.  Women and children often use and abuse food to cope with stress.  This volume combines specifically designed stress management techniques with treating symptoms of eating disorders.  

This volume presents the principles of psychosocial interventions and their application to a variety of medical disorders.  It offers important insights into the central role that psychological factors can play in disease, and the ways that psychosocial interventions can aid medical treatment in promoting health and recovery.

This volume summarizes findings on trauma and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in relation to three domains of outcomes:  health status and disease, somatization, and utilization and cost.  Contributors examine how trauma and PTSD could lead to poor physical health through correlates such as depression, hostility, and maladaptive coping and health behaviors.  They also present findings on the biology of stress and implications for clinical and health policy.

Physicians today may face more stress than any other group of professionals.  Sotile's work arms physicians with strategies and coping techniques for effectively managing themselves and others.

This book contains articles describing research on biological markers of stress in daily life.  The biological parameters discussed are immunological, endocrinological, and physiological.  New developments in research on mechanisms linking stress to atherosclerosis are discussed.  This work is useful for stress researchers, occupational health care teams, and all clinicians involved in work aiming at the prevention and/or rehabilitation of psychosomatic disorders. 

Vickers studies the growing number of working adults who are affected by chronic health conditions that may be largely invisible to those around them in the workplace.  She presents a qualitative research methodology that can be employed in identifying  “invisible” pockets of injustice -- the invisible pains of redundancy, job relocation, and aging, and the sufferings of job insecurity and stress.  The methodology presents a means of working toward corrective steps.

This timely book examines exciting new discoveries into how genetic, biological, and environmental conditions generate and shape our moods.  Wallenstein links recent findings in brain science, immunology, and stress research with novel treatment strategies for mood and anxiety disorders.

This guide is designed to help therapists develop comprehensive treatment plans for the disorders of every child they are working with, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Critical Incident Stress, and Bereavement.  Behavioral symptoms, other diagnostic possibilities,  the objectives of treatment and short-term behavioral goals as well as the therapist's interventions to meet them, are presented.  

Why do men develop heart disease earlier than women?  This book combines perspectives from numerous disciplines, such as demography, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition, psychology, and sociology in the exploration of environmental, behavioral, and psychosocial influences on men’s greater susceptibility to heart disease.

In this volume, Zautra provides a masterful integration of emotion and stress, identifying a unique and important role for stressful life events in shaping awareness of our emotional experiences.  He offers new insights into how stress and emotions can influence health and illness and demonstrates the wide applicability of this perspective across domains of love and marriage, work, aging, and community.  He provides new insights into clinical problems as well, through his review of research on chronic pain, depression, child abuse, and addiction.

This program reports on the ways in which stress is damaging to women and explores its connection to serious illness, memory loss, weight control, sleep, sexual desire, and depression.  Hormone therapy for younger women, especially after childbirth, is discussed, as well as breakthrough research that shows stress can cause dangerous weight gain. 

This video program helps students identify stressful circumstances and provides ways to manage the pressure that they create.  By knowing how to put events in perspective, students possess a vital tool for managing stress.

Medications, therapies, and imaging technologies that are leading the way to total recovery for people with anxiety disorders are spotlighted in this program which examines panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The links between stress and illness are explored by staging a day in the life of a lawyer.  Experts discuss how the “fight or flight response,” a result of adrenalin and cortisol secretion triggered by stress, can be detrimental over time.  Type A and B personalities are explained, as well as how the ability to manage stress may be determined before birth.

Continually high levels of stress have been linked to all of the leading causes of death in America, including heart disease, cancer, and lung ailments.  This program analyzes the role of stress in day-to-day life and in overall physical and mental health, and suggests techniques for managing stress. 

Who is at risk for stress-related diseases, the effects of prolonged stress, and what individuals can do to get a handle on stress are the focus of this program. 

This program looks at how stress affects kids -- at the symptoms that show that psychological buffers have failed; at eating and sleeping disturbances; at drug and alcohol use; and at mental illness, depression, and suicide.  The program also offers suggestions to relieve stress, to enable adults to help kids and enable kids to help themselves.

This program examines the symptoms and suspected causes of post-traumatic stress disorder, including feelings of helplessness suffered by victims of child abuse, sexual assault, or domestic violence.  Doctors and sufferers discuss the ongoing problem of PTSD misdiagnosis, along with the treatments and therapies that have proven effective in controlling its disabling symptoms.

Specialists in the field of emotional trauma discuss the causes, symptoms, and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.  The effects of adrenaline and cortisol on the body and the mechanics of narrative and emotional memory are also examined.  Stories of trauma caused by child abuse, spouse abuse, war atrocities, and terminal illness are related by patients recovering from PTSD.

This program explains that a wide variety of physical problems, including heart attacks and stroke, can be caused by stress, and recommends physical and mental relaxation techniques, as well as some major lifestyle changes.  The program also covers post-traumatic stress syndrome: how terror can alter brain chemistry and how we are currently dealing with PTSD.

This program looks at the hidden behavior, stress, denial, and the cycle of guilt and shame that underlie eating disorders; shows how depression, low energy, desperation, serious medical complications, and even death can result; and explores their effects on family and friends. 

This program shows teens how to recognize, analyze, and manage the stresses in their lives by using the C.H.I.L.L. formula: Communications, Health (Nutrition), “I” concerns (self-esteem and self-image), Laid back (relaxation techniques), and Little at a time (time management).

Stress is being increasingly implicated in immune system dysfunction, cancer, hypertension, heart disease, ulcers, and a host of other illnesses.  This program seeks to help viewers understand what causes stress, explain its consequences, and demonstrate ways in which stress can be turned into a positive force.

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