Stress and Strategy

Informationen zum Autor Shirley Fisher Klappentext Originally published in 1987, this title is concerned with the association between stress and control, and the implications for strategic response. It aims both to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive account of research in the area of stress for the advanced student and to develop a new synthesis of ideas leading to a cognitive model of stress and illness. Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1987, this title is concerned with the association between stress and control, and the implications for strategic response. It aims both to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive account of research in the area of stress for the advanced student and to develop a new synthesis of ideas leading to a cognitive model of stress and illness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Stress: A Problem of Definition 2. Stress and Control 3. Acquiring the Evidence about Control 4. Contingency Assessment and Control 5. Alternative Models of the Perception of Control 6. Stress and Competence: The Arousal Model 7. Stress and Competence: Mental Load and Strategic Rules 8. Stress and the Initiation of Strategies 9. Speed and Effort Strategies 10. Helplessness-Resistant Strategies 11. Strategy, Style, and Disorder 12. A Cognitive Model of Stress and Disease: An Attempted Synthesis. References. Author Index. Subject Index

Product details

• Authors: Shirley Fisher, Fisher Shirley
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138647145
• ISBN: 978-1-138-64714-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Psychology Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychotherapy, Health psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology