Title: Stress and Your Health: From Vulnerability to Resilience

Author: Hymie Anisman (Author)

Edition: 1st

Language: English

Publisher:

Dimensions: 6 x 0.67 x 9 inches

ISBN-10: 1118850246

ISBN-13: 978-1118850244

Publication Date: April 24, 2015

Print Length: 296 pages

Description: Stress and Your Health: From Vulnerability to Resilience presents an evidence-based evaluation of the various effects of stress, along with methods to alleviate distress and stress-related illnesses. The book examines myriad stressor effects and offers proven ways to alleviate stress in our lives, covering a wide range of stressor-related topics including therapeutic strategies to deal with stress and factors that hinder treatment of stress. It makes difficult biochemical and immunological concepts accessible to a non-specialist audience and addresses many of the factors that cause individuals to be more vulnerable to the impact of stressors and at increased risk for pathology.