Product Description: Guide to CICS Intercommunication. Presents a practical overview of design issues, application programming considerations, internal mechanisms, and resource definitions. No bibliography. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Recommends a variety of simple, tested psychological techniques for dealing with the inevitable frustrations and stresses of everyday life by learning when and how to let go

Offers a unique four-stage program of recovery from traumatic events in life, advising how to turn these traumas into positive forces for personal growth

Discusses such topics as the causes of panic attacks, reducing the symptoms of anxiety, understanding and reducing stress, eliminating the sources of anxiety, using anger positively, adjusting to change, and standing up for oneself

Product Description: This award-winning stress relief book is just as relevant today as it was more than twenty years ago when it was first published. We are in the midst of a stress pandemic that is damaging our health, our relationships, our work life, and many other areas of our well-being...read more

Product Description: Current theory . . . real cases . . .and now, this empirically-based best-seller offers even more. No other introduction to stress and stress management book provides the solid grounding in theory plus the lively examples and applications you'll find in Phillip L...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Shares the stories of AIDS patients, and describes the support they have received from their families, friends, and professional and volunteer caregivers (view table of contents)

Shares the stories of AIDS patients, and describes the support they have received from their families, friends, and professional and volunteer caregivers (view table of contents)

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Identifies the major causes of stress and outlines a stress management program using yoga, meditation, and other techniques

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Discusses how to handle the pressures of time by tapping into natural and productive rhythms to learn how to relax, gain control of worry, and reduce stress

Product Description: A rapidly growing number of people experience psychological strain at their workplace. In almost all industrialized countries, absenteeism and turnover rates increase, and an increasing amount of workers receive disablement benefits because of psychological problems...read more

Product Description: Book by Allison, Lynn

This volume provides a much-needed integration of major issues and research in the field of stress and coping. Focusing on transactions between mind and body and between persons and environments, the book examines how physiological, psychological, social, and cultural factors come together to influence both what people perceive as stressful and how they cope with it. Basic conceptual and methodological issues are reviewed in depth, and the strengths and weaknesses of various research models and measurement techniques are detailed. Topics covered include the psychophysiology of stress; the relationship between coping and health; coping with trauma; the development of coping strategies through the lifespan; cultural ramifications of coping; and the adaptive effects of stress.

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Offers techniques on how to work through stress and conquer anxiety, utilizing a variety of exercises that involve creative visualization, breathing, aerobics, and managing problems. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.