Behavioral Medicine: Work, Stress and Health

List of contents

1. Behavioral Medicine: A Mandate for Integrated Research.- 2. Stress, Health, and the Relaxation Response.- 3. Stress and Strain in the Work Environment: Does it Lead to Illness?.- 4. Psychosocial Coronary Risk Constellations in the Work Setting.- 5. Relationships Between Critical Life Events, Job Stress, and Cardiovascular Illness.- 6. Type A Behavior Pattern.- 7. Type A Behavior Pattern and the Anal-Obsessive Time Attitude.- 8. Barriers to Work Stress: I. Social Support.- 9. Barriers to Work Stress: II. The Hardy Personality.- 10. Anger Management and Work Stress: Healthy and Unhealthy Styles.- 11. Reducing Coronary Risk in Occupationally Successful Type A Men.- 12. Stress Intervention at the Organizational Level.- 13. Stress Management at Work: The New York Telephone Experiment.- 14. A Behavioral Approach to Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease.- 15. The Broader Issue - Health Care Management at the Individual and Systems Level.

About the author

William D. Gentry ist klinischer Psychologe und Gründer des "Journal of Behavioural Medicine". Er hat an der Duke University gelehrt, hält Seminare in den USA, in Kanada und in Europa und berät internationale Unternehmen.

Report

`It provides a much needed, integrated state-of-the-art appraisal of the impact of work stress on health, along with a `balance sheet approach' for alleviating stress-strain in industrialized societies.'
IDIS (1997)

Product details

• Assisted by: Benson (Editor), H Benson (Editor), H. Benson (Editor), Herbert Benson (Editor), C. J. de Wolff (Editor), C.J. de Wolff (Editor), W. Doyle Gentry (Editor), William D. Gentry (Editor), C J de Wolff (Editor), Charles J. De Wolff (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2013
• EAN: 9789401087926
• ISBN: 978-94-0-108792-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Illustrations: 344 p.
• Series: Nato Science Series D: (closed); Nato Science Series D: NATO Science Series D:
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General