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.

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: H. Benson (Editor), C J de Wolff (Editor), W Doyle Gentry (Editor), William D. Gentry (Editor), C. J. de Wolff (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.1986
• EAN: 9789024732647
• ISBN: 978-90-247-3264-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Weight: 670 g
• Illustrations: 344 p.
• Series: Nato Science Series D:
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General