Stress Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Wellness - Softcover

Charlesworth, Edward A.; Nathan, Ronald G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345468910 ISBN 13: 9780345468918

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2004

Synopsis

Are you among the 95 million Americans who suffer from stress during these trying times? Revised and comprehensive, this invaluable guide helps you identify the specific areas of stress in your life–familial, work-related, social, emotional–and offers proven techniques for dealing with every one of them. New material includes information on how men and women differ in response to stress, updated statistics on disorders and drugs, the ways terrorism and the information age impact stress, the key benefits of spirituality, alternative medicine, exercise, and nutrition. Stress Management will help you

· test your personal responses to daily stress– and chart your progress in controlling it
· learn specific techniques for relaxation– from “scanning” to “imagery training”
· discover how to deal with life’s critical moments without stress
· embark on a program to improve your physical health as a major step toward stress management
· discern which types of stress must be reduced and which kinds you can turn into positive motivation

About this title

From the Author:

I hope this book will be of help to you. Best wishes for wellness!

About the Author:

Edward A. Charlesworth, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, director of Willowbrook Psychological Associates, P.C., president of Stress Management Research Associates, Inc., and an international consultant to corporations and hospitals. He is also the author of Stress Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Wellness.

Ronald G. Nathan, PhD, is a clinical psychologist. Before entering private practice, Dr. Nathan was an award-winning professor of family practice and psychiatry at Albany Medical College who developed the country’s first required stress-management course for medical students.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0345468910
• ISBN 13: 9780345468918
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448