Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Everly, George S

Titel

A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response

Ist Teil von

• Springer Series on Stress and Coping

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I The Nature of Human Stress -- 1 The Concept of Stress -- 2 The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Stress Response -- 3 The Link from Stress Arousal to Disease -- 4 Stress-Related Disease: A Review -- 5 The Measurement of the Human Stress Response -- II The Treatment of the Human Stress Response -- 6 Personologic Diathesis and Human Stress -- 7 Control and the Human Stress Response -- 8 Psychotherapy: A Cognitive Perspective -- 9 A Neurophysiological Rationale for the Use of the Relaxation Response -- 10 Meditation -- 11 Neuromuscular Relaxation -- 12 Voluntary Control of Respiration Patterns -- 13 Hypnosis and Stress: Prevention and Treatment Applications -- 14 Biofeedback in the Treatment of the Stress Response -- 15 The Pharmacological Treatment of Excessive Stress -- 16 Physical Exercise and the Human Stress Response -- III Special Topics in the Treatment of the Human Stress Response -- 17 Stress and the Contemporary Woman -- 18 Occupational Stress and Its Management -- 19 Pos
• In 1981, Plenum Press published a text entitled The Nature and Treatment of the Stress Response by Robert Rosenfeld, M. D. , and me. That text attempted to do what no other text from a major publisher had previously attempted, that is, to create a clinically practical guide for the treatment of excessive stress and its arousal-related syndromes-this to be captured between the same covers in combination with a detailed, clinically relevant pedagogy on the neurological and endocrinological foundations of the stress response itself. That volume has enjoyed considerable success having found markets among practicing professionals and clinical students as well. The fields of psychosomatic medicine, health psychology, behavioral medicine, and applied stress research have appreciably expanded their boundaries since the publication of the aforementioned volume. Although remarkably little of the clinical utility of that volume has been eroded with time, it was felt that an updated and more integrative clinical textbook needed to be offered to practicing clinicians and students within clinical rather than simply create a second edition of training programs. Therefore, was made to create a significantly revised the original volume, the decision and expanded volume that would cover many of the same topics as the original volume but would provide a primary emphasis on the treatment of excessive stress and that would employ an integrative phenomenological model to facilitate that end. This present volume entitled A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response is the result