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About this book
Stress and Your Health: From Vulnerability to Resilience presents an evidence-based evaluation of the various effects of stress, along with methods to alleviate distress and stress-related illnesses.
- Examines myriad stressor effects and proven ways to alleviate stress in our lives
- Covers a wide range of stressor-related topics including therapeutic strategies to deal with stress and factors that hinder treatment of stress
- Makes difficult biochemical and immunological concepts accessible to a non-specialist audience
- Addresses many of the factors that cause individuals to be more vulnerable to the impact of stressors and at increased risk for pathology
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Yes, you can access Stress and Your Health by Hymie Anisman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Mental Health in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of Content
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Stressors, Stress, and Distress
- 2 Individual Differences in Relation to Stressors and Stress Responses
- 3 Appraising Stressful Events
- 4 Coping with Stressors
- 5 Hormones and What They Do
- 6 Neurotransmitter Processesand Growth Factors
- 7 Immunological Effects of Stressors
- 8 Stress across the Life Span
- 9 Cardiovascular Disease
- 10 Diabetes
- 11 Stress, Immunity, and Disease
- 12 Stress and Cancer: Cancer and Stress
- 13 Depressive Illnesses and Cognitive Mistakes
- 14 Fretting over Anxiety Disorders
- 15 Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- 16 Addictions and Forbidden Fruits
- 17 Coping with Illness, Caregiving, and Loss
- 18 The Workplace for Better or Worse
- 19 Transmission of Trauma across Generations
- 20 Stress Reduction through Cognitive and Behavioral Strategies
- 21 Drug Remedies to Attenuate Stress and Stress-Related Disorders
- 22 Epilogue
- References
- Index
- End User License Agreement