Principles and Practice of Stress Management, Second Edition [Paperback]

Paul M. Lehrer (Editor), Robert L. Woolfolk (Editor), Wesley Sime (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0898621623 | ISBN-13: 978-0898621624 | Publication Date: August 1, 1993 | Edition: Second Edition

The definitive resource for the field, Principles and Practice of Stress Management, 2nd Edition, is the only complete stress management reference in which methods are described by the author most closely associated with an established technique.

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"Here is a volume packed with detailed clinical and empirical information on everything from relaxation, yoga, meditation, hypnosis, autogenic training, biofeedback, control of respiration, cognitive therapy, and stress
inoculation training to music, aerobic exercise, and pharmacological interventions. Many luminaries have contributed individual chapters including Barber, Beck, Meichenbaum, Patel, Stoyva, and Budzynski, and the final section on integration, written by Lehrer, Woolfolk and their colleagues, brings this impressive tome together in a most compelling fashion." --Arnold A. Lazarus, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University

"The editors, Paul Lehrer and Robert Woolfolk, have fulfilled their promise of providing the practitioner with everything one could possibly want to know about the concepts, methods, and applications of stress reduction and stress management. The contributors to the volume are all highly respected masters of the field. Each chapter lays out in complete detail the historical background of the method, the philosophical and theoretical force behind it, how to do it, why it works, and for whom it may be appropriate. Although research on stress management is not a primary focus of the volume, the researcher will not be disappointed. The editors themselves conclude the volume with three truly comprehensive reviews of the major research questions in the field. These reviews, as well as the other chapters, are full of new ideas about how to look at the various areas of application in mental and physical health and where these fields are going and in each case backed up by hundreds of citations of relevant literature. After thirty years of working on issues in this field, I was surprised and intrigued by the many new ways of thinking about the meaning and consequences of stress for people and how the methods discussed can be effectively applied. I can't think of anyone in the field who will not want to have this volume nearby, whether seasoned investigator, student, or practitioner." --David Shapiro, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

"A virtually encyclopedic manual for the empirically oriented clinician interested in learning about the full range of techniques and approaches subsumed under the rubric of stress management. The editors, themselves exemplars of the scientist-practitioner model, have put together a distinguished group of experienced research-oriented clinicians who provide otherwise unavailable details on how to analyze stress-related problems and to implement a variety of stress management procedures in a humane and effective fashion. In an interesting way, this volume can be salutary for the professional whom Lehrer and Woolfolk rightfully describe as suffering from stress due to the increasing difficulty of keeping up with new developments--for the book provides a comprehensive overview of a complex and burgeoning field. This is a must read for applied workers who want to stay abreast of current work as well as obtain some glimpses of future developments in stress management." --Gerald C. Davison, Ph.D., University of Southern California Department of Psychology

About the Author

Paul Lehrer received his Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology from Harvard University in 1969, and is currently Professor of Psychiatry at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has published over 50 papers in the relaxation therapies and psychophysiology of stress. He studied progressive muscle relaxation under the tutelage of its originator, Edmund Jacobson, and has a particular interest in examining the specific effects of Jacobson's approach to this technique as compared with other relaxation techniques including modern variants of the progressive relaxation method. An active clinician as well as a researcher, Dr. Lehrer directs the Behavior Therapy and Behavioral Medicine Clinic at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and has served on the board of trustees of the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 621 pages
• Publisher: The Guilford Press; Second Edition edition (August 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898621623
• ISBN-13: 978-0898621624
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,909,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Stress Management Theory Text for Professionals, November 8, 2000

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Robert Kall "Rob Kall of Opednews.com" (Newtown, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Principles and Practice of Stress Management, Second Edition (Paperback)

Having been a practitioner and trainer in the field of Stress management (even helped develop questions for the Stress Management Certification Exam) it has been my responsibility to learn lots of different models and techniques for helping people understand and manage stress.

This book presents the most important, most effective and powerful models and techniques, many written by their original developers. It is a valuable, unique resource, primarily for professionals and practitioners. It provides both theoretical and practical technique information. But it is probably not the best book for the average layman wanting to deal with stress more effectively. Laymen (and professionals) should consider the Relaxation and Stress Workbook, in that case. But professionals will want the Lehrer Woolfolk, compilation because of the detailed theoretical grounding provided for the techniques, which include Autogenic training, Clinically Standardized meditation, Progressive muscle relaxation, biofeedback. And many more.

I can't emphasize enough that these are not just chapters written by anyone. This is the "Woodstock" of stress theory and practice books, with chapters by the "stars" of the field.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, very clear and scientific, November 6, 2000

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Andrés Burga León (Lima, Peru) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Principles and Practice of Stress Management, Second Edition (Paperback)

This is an excellent book about stress managment. The autors give a cler idea about the use of many stress managment techniques, including progressive muscular relaxation, autogenic training, meditation, yoga based therapy, cognitive approaches to stress, exercise and others. All the articles have a lot of referencces to reserach results with the techniques, wich show us the scientificity of the methods. It also includes some chapters with the comparation of the research results with many techniques and their applicability to clinical problems. I would recomend this book to all psychologist interested in the field.