Behavioral Medicine Work, Stress and Health [Paperback]

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cast?ra-Verduzan, France, August 1-16, 19811. Behavioral Medicine: A Mandate for Integrated Research.- 2. Stress, Health, and the Relaxation Response.- 3. Stress and Strain in the Work Environment: Does it Lead to Illness?.- 4. Psychosocial Coronary Risk Constellations in the Work Setting.- 5. Relationships Between Critical Life Events, Job Stress, and Cardiovascular Illness.- 6. Type A Behavior Pattern.- 7. Type A Behavior Pattern and the Anal-Obsessive Time Attitude.- 8. Barriers to Work Stress: I. Social Support.- 9. Barriers to Work Stress: II. The Hardy Personality.- 10. Anger Management and Work Stress: Healthy and Unhealthy Styles.- 11. Reducing Coronary Risk in Occupationally Successful Type A Men.- 12. Stress Intervention at the Organizational Level.- 13. Stress Management at Work: The New York Telephone Experiment.- 14. A Behavioral Approach to Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease.- 15. The Broader Issue  Health Care Management at the Individual and Systems Level.`It provides a much needed, integrated state-of-the-art appraisal of the impact of work stress on health, along with a `balance sheet approach' for alleviating stress-strain in industrialized societies.'
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