Handbook of Stress: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects

by Shlomo Breznitz

40 essays by specialists examine a variety of stress-related conditions. They cover the clinical, research and theoretcal aspects of stress - the concept of stress, biological/psychological phenomena,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029120365
• ISBN13: 9780029120361
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 819 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

The "Start Here Manual" for serious Students of Stress

Nothing is more complicated than stress. No single volume provides a more balanced and substantive range of theoretical and research articles and chapters devoted to clinical aspects of stress and stress management. The authors/editors wisely warn in chapter one about "Stress Research at a Crossroads." Any professional involved in researching or clinically treating forms of stress knows all too well that stress research is multiplying exponentially and that as the body of information is expanding it is also diversifying and dovetailing with similar topics such as emotion, neurology, physiology and even physics and linguistics. Given, then, that no volume - let alone one that attempts to maintain a substantive input by the classical pioneers such as Selye, Lazarus, Janis and Meichenbaum among many others - can keep up with the research, this one constitutes a masterful, one-stop basic text for integrating the rich underpinnings that launched the stress revolution. The three major strengths of this book that keep it almost constantly on my desktop are its rich classical/historical content (just where exactly did we get the ideas of "eustress and distress"?), the expansive range of topics ranging from medicine and emotion to psychological measurement, diagnosis, and environment, and its applicability to a wide array of practical clinical applications including social turmoil (the Holocaust, migration of populations, HIV), treatment modalities and links to overall physical health. This classic text is the springboard handbook for any professional who makes a living trying to understand or apply stress theory to helping people change, or addressing the social context in which people live.