by
Matta, Christy.
Call Number
616.89142 23
Publication Date
2012
Summary
"Stress affects everyone in different ways and can actually help some people become more productive and innovative. But extreme stress more often has a paralyzing effect, and can lead to negative coping behaviors like anger, emotional overreactions, anxiety, and alcohol, drug, or food abuse. This book is the first to offer a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program for coping with extreme stress in healthier ways. The four DBT skills can help those prone to overreactions and other negative responses to stress to embrace imperfections, expand their options, and soothe themselves in stressful situations. The Stress Response invites readers to explore their personal stress reactions and practice these new methods of solving the everyday problems that trigger stress. Readers also learn to accept their most stressed-out emotions and thoughts without judging them, and gradually decrease their vulnerability to stress"--Provided by publisher. "The Stress Response offers readers a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) approach to overcoming stress-related symptoms that decrease readers' quality of life and lead to unhealthy avoidance behaviors. By learning the core DBT techniques: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness; readers can learn to process stress in healthy and productive ways"--
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Electronic Resources
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Wicks, Robert J.
Call Number
610.69019 22
Publication Date
2006
Summary
Suitable for physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals, this book helps them understand acute and chronic secondary stress, develop a personally designed self-care protocol, and strengthen one's inner life. It also features a "Medical-Nursing Professional Secondary Stress Self-Awareness Questionnaire" that can be self-administered.
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Electronic Resources
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