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Stress

Stress

Hardcover

Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Psychology, Book 7

General PsychologySelf-Help

ISBN10: 1405107448
ISBN13: 9781405107440
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: May 24 2004
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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 origins of the concept of stress.
  • Explores different theories and models of stress such as the psychosomatic approach, homeostasis, and general adaptation syndrome.
  • Discusses the work and intriguing contributions of key researchers in the field such as Walter Cannon, Hans Selye, Harold Wolff, and Richard Lazarus.
  • Explains the origins of key concepts in stress such as stressful life events, the coronary-prone personality, and appraisals and coping.
  • Culminates in a discussion of what makes a good theory and what obligations stress researchers have to those whose working lives they study.

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