Stress: A Brief History is a lively, accessible, and detailed examination of the origins of the
field of stress research. First concise, accessible, academically grounded book on the�…

* What is psychological stress?* How does it influence health?* How can the experiential
components of the stress process be examined? Despite both the recent flourishing of the�…

Presenting authoritative, up-to-date information in convenient handbook form, this premier
reference covers an extensive range of current topics on the causes, symptoms, and�…

Nowadays, everyone seems to be talking about stress. You hear about this topic not only in
daily conversation but also on television, via radio, in the newspapers, and in the every�…

It is almost axiomatic that for an event or situation to be stressful it must be apprehended or
perceived by the organism. From this perspective, environmental challenge is thought to be�…

Presenting authoritative, up-to-date information in convenient handbook form, this premier
reference covers an extensive range of current topics on the causes, symptoms, and�…

Abstract concerned primarily with identifying social conditions that stand as sources of
stress/begins with the broadest sources of stress, those that are thought to reside in the very�…

Although stress does not" cause" mental illness, exposure to stress does increase the
relative risk of experiencing mental health problems. Aneshensel discusses the research�…

In planning this book I did not intend to spend much time or energy discussing what stress is,
as I had naively assumed that the concept of stress was already clear in the literature�…

It was our privilege, some twenty years ago, to assemble a group of Canadian and American
investigators to examine the status of research in the then newly burgeoning field of�…