Cary L. Cooper, Philip Dewe

Stress

A Brief History

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Produktbeschreibung

Stress: A Brief History is a lively, accessible, and detailed examination of the origins of the field of stress research.
First concise, accessible, academically grounded book on the origins of the concept of stress.
Explores different theories and models of stress such as the psychosomatic approach, homeostasis, and general adaptation syndrome.
Discusses the work and intriguing contributions of key researchers in the field such as Walter Cannon, Hans Selye, Harold Wolff, and Richard Lazarus.
Explains the origins of key concepts in stress such as stressful life events, the coronary-prone personality, and appraisals and coping.
Culminates in a discussion of what makes a good theory and what obligations stress researchers have to those whose working lives they study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9781405107457
• ISBN-10: 1405107456
• Artikelnr.: 13586402

Autorenporträt

Gwen Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat; Homer: The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat; My Life in a Cat House; and Spray Anything: More True Tales of Homer and the Gang, as well as the novel Love Saves the Day (narrated from a rescue cat's perspective) and PAWSOME! Head Bonks, Raspy Tongues, and 101 Reasons Why Cats Make Us So, So Happy--among numerous other titles. Gwen's work has been published in more than two-dozen languages, and she is a frequent speaker at shelter fundraisers across the U.S. and Europe. Gwen lives in New Jersey with her husband, Laurence. She also lives with her two perfect cats--Clayton "the Tripod" and his litter-mate, Fanny--who aren't impressed with any of it.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.
1. From Early Beginnings to the 20th Century.
Introduction.
Hooke's Law and the Engineering Analogy.
The 18th Century and Beyond.
Summary of Themes from the 18th and 19th Century.
2. The 20th Century - The Early Years.
The Emergence of the School of Functionalism.
Fatigue and Mental Hygiene.
Psychosomatic Medicine and the contribution of Walter Cannon.
Hans Selye.
The Concept of Non-Specificity.
General Adaptation Syndrome.
Eustress, Distress, Overstress and Hyperstress.
Physiological Aspects of Stress.
The Work of Harold Wolff.
The Protective Reaction.
Summary of the First half of the 20th Century.
3. From the 1950s to Richard Lazarus.
Stress in the 1950s and 1960s.
Stressful Life Events.
The Social Readjustment Scale.
Daily Hassles and Uplifts and the Debate that Followed.
The Debate: Critical Life Events Versus Hassles and Uplifts.
Personality and Type A Behavior Patterns.
Towards the Study of Individual Differences.
A Return to the 1950s and 1960s and a change in Focus.
The History of Stress in Sweden.
The Origins of Organizational Psychology.
The Rise of Ergonomics/Human Factors.
Summary.
4. The Work of Richard Lazarus.
Introduction.
The Beginnings.
The Berkeley Stress and Coping Project.
A Historical Look at Appraisal.
The Nature of Appraisals and the debate that Followed.
Lazarus and the process of Coping.
Ways of Coping Questionnaire.
Lazarus and Emotions.
Summary.
5. Work Stress and Occupational Health Psychology.
Introduction.
Work Stress.
Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity and the Search for Causes of Work Stress.
Beyond Role Conflict, Ambiguity and Overload.
Early Research Frameworks and Identifying Strains.
Toward an Integrated Model of Work Stress.
Work Stress and Coping.
From Coping to the Self Help Years to Stress Management.
Occupational Health Psychology.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Summary.
6. What Do We Mean by Stress: From the Past to the Future.
Introduction.
From the Past to the Future.
What does History add to Our Understanding of Stress?.
Searching for the Organizing Concept of the future.
Distinguishing Between Description and Meaning.
Why Stress? Fulfilling Our moral Responsibility.
References.
Index.

Rezensionen

"Mental health problems and stress-related disorders are often thecause of early death. Cary Cooper's and Philip Dewe's book is afascinating and highly readable account of the long and difficultjourney to this insight. I recommend it strongly." Lennart Levi,MD, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Division of Stress Research,Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

"an informative and concise summary of landmarks in the historyof stress research, with themes originating from over a hundredyears of contributions to the field ... this book carries more thanenough information for one to appreciate the origins of an excitingand necessary field." Andi Yi-An Shih, Ph.D. Candidate,University of British Colombia. Stress and Health, 20, 239-40,2004

"This must be the definitive book on the history of stress,written by specialists in organisational psychology andbehaviour...Work stress is given a chapter on its own , and theconclusion asks what we mean by stress and how research on thetopic can be pursued." Scientific and Medical Network Review,Summer 2005