Stress Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Wellness

Stress Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Wellness

With a wealth of practical advice everybody can use to immediately begin to reduce the presence of stress in their life, this book is a valuable resource to help to lead a productive, healthy and happy life.

by Edward Charlesworth, Ph.D. & Ronald Nathan, Ph.D. —

Completely revised and updated, this invaluable guide helps you identify the areas of stress in your life — familial, work-related, social, emotional — and offers proven techniques for dealing with each of them.

New material includes information on how men and women differ in response to stress; updated statistics on disorders and drugs; the ways terrorism and the information age impact stress; and the key benefits of spirituality, alternative medicine, exercise and nutrition.

Additional information can help you to test your responses to daily stress and chart your progress in controlling it, learn specific techniques for relaxation, discover how to deal with life’s critical moments without stress, embark on a program to improve your physical health as a major step toward stress management and discern which types of stress must be reduced, and which kinds you can turn into positive motivation.

With a wealth of practical advice everybody can use to immediately begin to reduce the presence of stress in their life, this book is a valuable resource to help to lead a productive, healthy and happy life.

$15.95 — Ballantine Books, A division on Random House, Inc., 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.

Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 23, Number 1, February/March 2005.