Session 8: Dealing With External Life Stresses
Joel M. Reiter, Donna Andrews, Charlotte Reiter, and W. Curt LaFrance Jr.
in Taking Control of Your Seizures: Workbook
External life stresses cause strain and tension, to the detriment of physical and emotional health. These stresses can affect both seizure frequency and quality of life. Participants ...
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Is Autism a Stress Disorder?: What Studies of Nonautistic Populations Can Tell Us
Kathleen Morgan
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter aims to review the consequences of stress and anxiety for behavior and biology, and to relate those, when appropriate, to behavioral and/or physiological correlates of autism. ...
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Session 8: Dealing With External Life Stresses
W. Curt LaFrance Jr. and Jeffrey Peter Wincze
in Treating Nonepileptic Seizures: Therapist Guide
In this chapter the seizure counselor emphasizes the negative impact that external life stresses can have on seizure frequency and quality of life. Although many people recognize that they ...
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Therapist Insights in Working with Stress in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Lawrence Bartak, Verity Bottroff, and Joanna Zeitz
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter provides a detailed way of understanding the behavior that people with autism may present. Analysis of the person's behavior in such detail makes it possible to understand the ...
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Understand Your Stress
David H. Barlow, Ronald M. Rapee, and Sarah Perini
in 10 Steps to Mastering Stress: A Lifestyle Approach, Updated Edition
This chapter outlines the first step towards mastering stress – understanding stress. It presents the basics of stress, causes of stress, stressful environments, handling environments, ...
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Introduction
M. Grace Baron, Lewis P. Lipsitt, June Groden, and Gerald Groden
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter presents an introduction to the title. It outlines why stress is important to the study of autism, individual differences and stress, and foundations for stress, coping and ...
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Asperger's Syndrome and Problems Related to Stress
Tony Attwood
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter examines the possible causes of stress for any child, with particular attention to why these potentially stressful situations are more severe and prolonged for children with ...
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Trauma- and Stress-Related Disorders
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
This chapter covers the use of IPT for patients with trauma- and stress-related disorders, namely posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and adjustment disorders. Psychotherapies for PTSD ...
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Adjustment Disorders in Asians
Kevin M. Chun and Jeanette Hsu
in Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians: Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Chapter 13 outlines adjustment disorders in Asians, the DSM criteria for adjustment disorders and their application to Asian populations, perspectives on the causes of adjustment disorders ...
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Combat and Operational Stress Control
Kristin N. Williams-Washington and Jared A. Jackson
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
With the rising rates of traumatic stress endured due to military conflicts, tactics have been taken to assist service members (SMs) of all branches in maintaining mission readiness in the ...
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Combat Operational Stress and Behavioral Health
Mark C. Russell and Charles R. Figley
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Occupational hazards of military service regularly involve exposure to potential traumatic events such as combat, sexual violence, disaster-relief, training accidents, and war atrocities ...
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Work Stress and Coping in Organizations: Progress and Prospects
Ronald J. Burke
in Beyond Coping: Meeting Goals, Visions, and Challenges
Chapter 5 discusses work stress and coping in organizations. It reviews the coping literature focusing on the workplace, presents a framework for the study of coping in organizations ...
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College and Career
Jessica M. Cronce and William R. Corbin
in Young Adult Mental Health
This chapter discusses the importance of college and career to the young adult. It differentiates between young adulthood and emerging adulthood, and explores the choices between college ...
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Session 1: Stressors and Stress Responses / Progressive Muscle Relaxation for 16 Muscle Groups
Michael H. Antoni, Gail Ironson, and Neil Schneiderman
in Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management: Workbook
Chapter 2 outlines the first CBSM for HIV session in the therapy program. This session explores stressors and stress responses. Participants are encouraged to list their personal stressors ...
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Session 1: Introduction to the Program / Stressors and Stress Responses / Progressive Muscle Relaxation for 16 Muscle Groups
Michael H. Antoni, Gail Ironson, and Neil Schneiderman
in Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management for Individuals Living with HIV: Facilitator Guide
Chapter 3 presents the first session of the CBSM treatment program for individuals with HIV, including an introduction to the stress management techniques that will be used throughout the ...
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Suicide in the Military
M. David Rudd
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Suicide in the military has received considerable attention since the Global War on Terror was launched, with rates increasing across all branches of the service and more than doubling ...
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Postdeployment Adjustment
David S. Riggs
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
This chapter describes challenges service members face after returning home from deployment. These include existential issues, behaviors and reactions learned in combat, and emotional and ...
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Concluding Remarks: What it All Means
Erica Frydenberg
in Beyond Coping: Meeting Goals, Visions, and Challenges
This chapter presents concluding remarks and the effects of the research that has been detailed in this title. It summarizes the arguments and theories put forward by each chapter in the ...
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Stress: How It Affects Me (Sessions 1 to 6)
Tania Lecomte, Claude Leclerc, and Til Wykes
in Group CBT for Psychosis: A Guidebook for Clinicians
This chapter describes the initial six sessions of our workbook, which include setting the rules, the icebreaker activity, and introducing nonthreatening topics, that are considered useful ...
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Autism and the Physiology of Stress and Anxiety
Raymond G. Romanczyk and Jennifer M. Gillis
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter discusses the important contribution of the constructs of stress and anxiety to assist in treatment formulation from a psychophysiological perspective. It explores anxiety, ...
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