This book, written by leading health psychologist Michael E. Hyland, will help psychologists, healthcare practitioners, managers, and those affected by stress, to strip away the myths around stress.

Table of Contents

• About the author
• 1 What is stress?
• 2 What are stressors?
• 3 Why do some people get more stressed than others?
• 4 The acute stress response to short-term stressors
• 5 The long-term stress response to chronic stressors
• 6 Stress and illness
• 7 Measuring and detecting stress
• 8 Stress and society
• 9 Reducing the impact of stress: the relaxation response
• 100 ideas