Author : Dean Bartlett
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033523061X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)
Book Synopsis EBOOK: Stress by : Dean Bartlett
Download or read book EBOOK: Stress written by Dean Bartlett and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1998-11-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is psychological stress? How does it influence health? How can the experiential components of the stress process be examined? Despite both the recent flourishing of the health psychology field and the long history of stress research, there have been relatively few attempts to examine stress within a broader framework focusing on the role of psychosocial processes in physical and psychological well-being. This is what Dean Bartlett's accessible and authoritative book aims to achieve. In the earlier chapters of the book, the nature of both stress and health is outlined and theoretical perspectives that may have a bearing on how stress can cause illness are considered. The author takes as his starting point the assertion that it is the phenomenological experience of stress that determines the impact of stressful events upon the individual, and he makes a distinctive contribution in terms of an integrated account of the cognitive-phenomenological elements of the stress process. Stress offers a comprehensive overview of the stress phenomenon from a biopsychosocial perspective. It will be invaluable to students of health psychology and also to professionals including those in the fields of medicine, occupational psychology and the health professions.