Stress Management

Are you among the 95 million Americans who suffer from stress during these trying times? Revised and comprehensive, this invaluable guide helps you identify the specific areas of stress in your lifefamilial, work-related, social, emotionaland offers proven techniques for dealing with every one 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, the key benefits of spirituality, alternative medicine, exercise, and nutrition. Stress Managementwill help you test your personal responses to daily stress and chart your progress in controlling it learn specific techniques for relaxation from "scanning" to "imagery training" 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 discern which types of stress must be reduced and which kinds you can turn into positive motivation

Edward A. Charlesworth, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, director of Willowbrook Psychological Associates, P.C., president of Stress Management Research Associates, Inc., and an international consultant to corporations and hospitals. He is in demand as a speaker on topics of positive lifestyle changes and has inspired audiences from Switzerland to the Philippines. He is the author or coauthor of four books, Stress Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Wellness, Stress Management: A Conceptual and Procedural Guide, Mind over Money, and Life Management, and his numerous scientific articles include topics such as biofeedback and self-control, drug abuse, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, hypnotherapy, personality, and psychotherapy. He is the author of the popular audio-therapeutic recorded programs The Relaxation and Stress Management Program and Stress Management Training Program. Ronald G. Nathan, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist. Before entering private practice, Dr. Nathan was an award-winning professor of family practice and psychiatry at Albany Medical College and developed the country's first required stress management course for medical students. The coauthor of four books about stress, Dr. Nathan contributed the "stress" entry in recent editions of The World Book Encyclopedia. His work has been featured in Men's Health, Cosmopolitan, and Family Circle. For the past ten years, he has also served as an associate editor of the American Journal of Health Promotion. Recently, Dr. Nathan cocreated www. ChristMinder.com, an innovative Web site where visitors can download free software designed to integrate life-enhancing Bible verses and biblical affirmations into their personal computer activities.