Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Management of Stress
3. Detailed Summary of Stress
4. Meditation
5. Physical Exercise
6. Cognitive Therapy
7. Stress Ball and Anger Management
8. Biofeedback
9. Yoga
10. How to Deal with Stress
11. Stress at Work

Including practical advice on how to conduct a stress audit and how to target stress 'hot spots' within an organization, Organizational Stress Management provides a fresh strategic model for the manager concerned with the negative effects stress can have both on company performance and the quality of life of individuals at work.

"Coping with Work Stress" highlights the most up-to-date research relating to coping strategies of individuals and organizations, and provides a series of invaluable 'best practice' techniques for dealing with the growing epidemic of stress and lack of overall well-being at work. The authors - renowned experts in the field - offer carefully considered critical reviews of issues surrounding the latest work stress and coping studies, and identify several new strategic pathways to stimulate future research.With the insidious effects of workplace stress fully acknowledged and well-documented, "Coping with Work Stress" takes an important next step by providing coping techniques for improving the health and well-being of organizations and individuals alike.

Stress refers to the process of adaptation of an individual once he/she is exposed to external or internal challenges. The organism possesses numerous systems to coordinate such adaptive responses, both at the systemic and the cellular level. In this book, we address stress-related bodily disorders, and, consequently, the mechanisms that participate in the crosstalk between the brain and the body; mainly the endocrine, the immune, and the autonomic nervous systems. Maladaptation may result in stress-related disorders, which eventually affect all organ systems and can involve central and peripheral mechanisms since this crosstalk is truly bi-directional.

This engaging and easy-to-read text helps students identify, understand, and combat the stressors that most affect their lives. In an informal, anecdotal style, author Jerrold Greenberg discusses the latest research findings on the physical, psychological, sociological, and spiritual aspects of stress, as well as the appropriate coping skills.

This is an important book about the scientific study of stress and human adaptation. It brings together both empirical data and theoretical developments that address the fundamental question of how psychosocial variables get inside the body to influence neurobiological processes that culminate in physical disease.

Emeritus Professor of Psychology Stony Brook University

(From the Foreword)

Comprehensive Stress Management helps students identify, understand, and manage the stressors that most affect their lives. Written in an informal, anecdotal style, the text presents the latest research findings on the physical, psychological, sociological, and spiritual aspects of stress. The text also provides an in-depth discussion of a wide variety of coping skills, including relaxation techniques, behavior change interventions, and strategies for defusing physiological arousal. This engaging, easy-to-read text gives students the tools they need to cope with stress in an increasingly stressful world. Accompanying the text are instructor and student resources on the Online Learning Center.