This title explores the optimum level of pressure and how personality, attitudes and circumstances can lead to excessive stress. Delegates look at ways of reducing or limiting stress and focus on techniques they can use, such as maintaining a balance in life, coping with change, handling people assertively and considering how to look after themselves.
Drawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view of stress—one that reveals the upside of stress, and shows us exactly how to capitalize on its benefits.
The quick-to-read “8 keys” format of the book can be utilized on many levels so that busy readers can quickly find relief from stress.
In a study at the University of California at Los Angeles, Lewis Baxter, Jeffrey Schwartz and colleagues used cognitive behavioral therapy with OCD patients in combination with PET brain imaging. The goals were to enable the patients ...
Straightforward, easy to read and highly practical, How to Deal with Stress puts the reader back in charge of their life and shows how to manage stress calmly and efficiently.Written by two internationally-recognized experts in the field of ...
The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units).
Stress Management: Approaches for Preventing and Reducing Stress
Whether you crumble under pressure, get angry, or simply bury your head in the sand, this book provides effective techniques to help you take the edge off and even channel your stress in a positive way.
The book concludes with a useful review of coping strategies and interventions that have been demonstrated to alleviate parenting stress.
The text then provides a critical examination of the elements of the stress process, extracts supporting research for a rationale of stress management and describes various stress management techniques and their effectiveness.
So what can you do to address it? The HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work will help you find a sustainable solution. It will help you reach the goal of getting on an even keel—and staying there.