Stress and Your Health

From Vulnerability to Resilience

Hymie Anisman

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781118850336
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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

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