Description

Stress is a growing problem in modern society, and it especially affects white-collar employees. In How to Manage Stress, author Suzanne Hird offers a practical approach to dealing with stress. Through exercises and lessons, Hird helps you come to terms with the stress in your life and teaches you how to cope with it.

Focusing on an approach to occupational psychology with notions related to the psychological workplace environment, How to Manage Stress deals with questions like:

What is stress?

What are positive stress and negative stress?

Can stress be positive, and if so, what conditions must be present?

Are some stress symptoms more dangerous than others?

What are the relations between the adrenal medulla hormone, adrenaline, adrenocortical hormone, cortisol, and a weakened immune system?

What are the typical causes of stress?

What are the manager’s responsibilities for employees feeling stress?

What can you do to prevent health-threatening stress?

How to Manage Stress provides a checkup and overhaul of you and your life-a checkup that should be performed several times a year in order to stay fit, happy, and stress-free. It provides motivation for inspiring solutions, which allows you to act in an active, purposeful, and constructive manner for the benefit of yourself, your family, your colleagues, and the workplace.”

Author: Hird, Suzanne

Topic: Self-Help
Media: Book
ISBN: 1458217027
Language: English
Pages: 202