Stress Management - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Best Practices, Benefits and Practical Solutions

Stress Management - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Best Practices, Benefits and Practical Solutions Synopsis

Stress management is the amelioration of stress and especially chronic stress often for the purpose of improving everyday functioning. Stress produces numerous symptoms which vary according to persons, situations, and severity. These can include physical health decline as well as depression. According to the St. Louis Psychologists and Counseling Information and Referral, the process of stress management is one of the keys to a happy and successful life in modern society. Although life provides numerous demands that can prove difficult to handle, stress management is the best way to manage anxiety and maintain overall well-being. This book is your one-stop, ultimate resource for Stress Management. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links covering all aspects of Stress Management: Stress management, Stress (biology), Abiotic stress, Acute stress reaction, Allostasis, Allostatic load, Amygdala hijack, Biotic stress, Body-centred countertransference, Breaking point (psychology), Burnout (psychology), Chronic stress, Combat stress reaction, Compassion fatigue, Complex post-traumatic stress disorder, Coping (psychology), Cortisol, Cortisol awakening response, Defense physiology, Diathesis-stress model, Effects of stress on memory, Emotional exhaustion, Emotional labor, Epinephrine, Eustress, Eutonology, Fight-or-flight response, Flashback (psychology), Freezing behavior, Grief counseling, Historical trauma, Holmes and Rahe stress scale, Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, Jury stress, Karoshi, Lateral strain, Life-Events and Difficulties Schedule, Mental breakdown, Mental distress, Military sexual trauma, Psychoneuroimmunology, Occupational burnout, Occupational stress, Perceived Stress Scale, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Prenatal stress, Procrastination, Psychological trauma, Psychosomatic medicine, Self-medication, SIDD, Somatopsychic, Stress (physiology), Stress ball, Stress-related disorders, Stressor, Sugar addiction, Technostress, Tend and befriend, Thousand-yard stare, Transmarginal inhibition, Traumatic stress, Victimization Symptoms, Work-life balance, Workplace stress, Work-life balance (United States), Worry This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Stress Management. It reduces the risk of your time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Stress Management with the objectivity of experienced professionals. Unique, authoritative, and wide-ranging, it offers practical and strategic advice for managers, business owners and students worldwide.

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