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Contents

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Preface

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What is Stress? 

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1.1     Stress

1.2     Stressful  events from lowest to highest magnitude and the coping Strategies

1.3     Selyes’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

1.4     Why Change Life Style (A Preventive Measure for Stress Occurrence) 

1.5     Present-Future scenario of Stress if motivators influence

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Stress: Concepts and Theories

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2.1     Related terms

2.2     Theoretical explanations for stress

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The Human Physiology and Stress

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3.1     The brain in stress and health 

3.2     The Thyroid glands and thyroxin

3.3     Natural defences of Immune system

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Psychological Elements in Stress System

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4.1     The Mind’s Suspence and Psyche

4.2     cognition

4.3     Factors leading to stressful appraisals

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Family Under Stress: Various Problems and Coping Styles

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5.1     Chain for family stress

5.2     The ABCX model of family stress

5.3     Coping with family stress: stages

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Social Factors and Stress

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6.1     Social theory of stress 

6.2     Impact of social change on personality stability

6.3     Professional and Life crises

6.4     Coping with life change

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Children Under Stress

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7.1     Factors influencing the severity of stress

7.2     Typical steps in coping with adjustive demands

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Age Related Stress

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8.1     Stochastic Theories

8.2     Programmed theories

8.3     Physical change during adult years

8.4     Physical changes during mid-life

8.5     Physical changes in late life

8.6     Consequences of Stress

8.7     Five golden principals to a stress free Life

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Personal And Stress

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9.1     Theoretical perspective on Personality

9.2     Hypertensive Personality – A view

9.3     The Cancerous Personality 

9.4     Personality stress and infertility link

9.5     Personality of an alcoholic 

9.6     Three personality traits link with stress and health

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Environmental Stressor

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10.1     Theories of environmental stress

10.2     Major stressors

10.3     Coping with outcomes of disasters

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Stress Victims

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11.1     Fear : A Mental Prison

11.2     Factors of victimization

11.3     Victimization avoidance

11.4     Life style evaluation

11.5     Proper selection of time

11.6     Awareness of high risk-places

11.7     Select self defeating measures carefully

11.8     Behavioural adjustment

11.9     Errors of attribution

11.10     The victim’s profile

11.11     Beliefs about crime 

11.12     Beliefs in personal invulnerability

11.13     Severity of Crime

11.14     Suggested steps for managing fear from victimization

11.15     Social actions to coping with victimization

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Job Stress

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12.1     Definition of job stress

12.2     Stress sources

12.3     Individual stressors

12.4     Outcomes for the organization

12.5     Coping strategies for stress

12.6     Special group facing work stress

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Nutrition, Exercise, health and Stress

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13.1     Role of dies on stress

13.2     Exercise health and stress

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Stress Management Exercises

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14.1  Relaxation Techniques 

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Stress and Time Management

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15.1     Need for time management study

15.2     Attitude towards time

15.3 Time-mismanagement : It’s impact