This volume offers original studies on relaxation and stress management. Practitioners will find a wealth of specific, ready-to-use, evidence-based suggestions for incorporating relaxation techniques into their clinical work. Part I summarizes practical advances in the theory, research, and assessment of relaxation. Part II is an anthology of 25 studies on relaxation focusing on individual differences; stress, coping and relaxation; factor analyses and correlations; and practice techniques. An appendix offers a complete relaxation inventory of scales for those interested in developing their own studies.
Jonathan C. Smith PhD is an international expert on stress, relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness -- and more recently critical thinking and the paranormal. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Chicago's Roosevelt University, and Founding Director of the Roosevelt University Stress Institute (and the Pseudoscience and Paranormal Laboratory). The Institute has an extensive research program, online and classroom instruction, and Certificates in Relaxation, Meditation and Mindfulness Dr. Smith has published 17 books and more than three dozen articles, served as expert outside reviewer for six top psychological and medical journals, and published chapters as "guest expert" in eight textbooks and encyclopedias. His book publishers have included Aldine, Guilford Press, Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Plenum, Praeger, Prentice-Hall, Research Press, Springer, and Wiley/Blackwell. In addition, he has served as Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Roosevelt University for a decade and created Chicago's first university-based PsyD in Clinical Psychology. Under the leadership of subsequent Directors, this program has proudly earned a 7-year APA accreditation and is acclaimed nationwide for its focus on quality instruction, small classes, and rigor.
Author webpage:
http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/jsmith
Dr. Smith's primary research focus has been theoretical and clinical issues related to stress management, relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness. His work on critical thinking focuses on paranormic religiosity and extraordinary paranormal "claims of consequence." (He has been confirmed as a "Level 6.14 Psychic.")
Dr. Smith has taught thousands of students, clients, and health professionals and has served as consultant for government, business, educational, medical, and health organizations in the US, Canada, Australia, Spain, France, India, Germany, and the People's Republic of China.
