Stress Reduction and Prevention

Since 1950, when Hans Selye first devoted an entire book to the study of stress,professional and public concern with stress has grown tremendous ly. These concerns have contributed to an understanding that has impli cations for both prevention and treatment. The present book is designed to combine these data with the clinical concerns of dealing with stressed populations. In order to bridge the gap between research and practice, contributions are included by major researchers who have been con cerned with the nature of stress and coping and by clinical researchers who have developed stress management and stress prevention programs. The book is divided into three sections. The goal of the first section is to survey the literature on stress and coping and to consider the implica tions for setting up stress prevention and management programs. Follow ing some introductory observations by the editors are the observations of three prominent investigators in the field of stress and coping. Irving JaniS, Seymour Epstein, and Howard Leventhal have conducted seminal studies on the topic of coping with stress. For this book they have each gone beyond their previous writings in proposing models and guidelines for stress prevention and management programs. While each author has tackled his task somewhat differently, a set of common suggestions has emerged.

I: The Stress Literature: Implications for Prevention and Treatment.- 1. A Model for Stress Research with Some Implications for the Control of Stress Disorders.- 2. Natural Healing Processes of the Mind: Graded Stress Inoculation as an Inherent Coping Mechanism.- 3. Stress Inoculation in Health Care: Theory and Research.- Concluding Comments to Section I.- II: Guidelines for Training.- 4. Stress Inoculation Training: Toward a General Paradigm for Training Coping Skills.- III. Applications.- 5. Stressful Medical Procedures: Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies for Stress Management and Prevention.- 6. Stress Inoculation in the Management of Clinical Pain: Applications to Burn Pain.- 7. A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Psychophysiological Disorders.- 8. Stress Management For Type A Individuals.- 9. Coping with Terrorism: The Israeli Case.- 10. Stress Management for Rape Victims.- 11. Military Recruit Training: An Arena for Stress-Coping Skills.- 12. Stress Inoculation Training for Social Anxiety, with Emphasis on Dating Anxiety.- 13. Stress Inoculation Training for Adolescent Anger Problems.- Concluding Comments.- Author Index.