The text emphasizes the complexity of the problem of stress and the importance of integrated and comprehensive prevention and intervention with stress. Throughout the book, four principles are developed in depth: interventions cannot focus solely on changing the individual student, but also must change the student's environment; skill-training interventions alone are inadequate because they do not address emotional factors that may underline students' maladaptive coping; parental involvement in interventions is crucial and schools must be reconceptualized as centers of coordinated networks of services for children and adolescents.
