Stress Management A Comprehensive Handbook Of Techniques And Strategies [Hardcover]

Here is a comprehensive clinical manual focused on stress management and relaxation. It contains detailed descriptions of tactics for training the user in the methods of relaxation, positive thinking, time management, and more. Features validated self-tests (normed on over 1000 individuals), and first-time ever stress management motivations and irrational beliefs inventories.

This hands-on resource is essential for practitioners introducing stress management techniques into their practice; students who are learning how to cope with stress; practitioners-in-training, and clinicians looking for a refresher course.

Preface
Part I: Stress Basics
1. Stress Competency and the Smith Stress Management Skills Inventory
2. Stress Concepts, Exercises
3. Crises, Catastrophes, and Acute Stress Disorder

Part II: The Four Pillars of Stress Management

4. ABC Relaxation,
   
   1. Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Autogenic Training
   2. Breathing and Stretching Exercises
   3. Sense Imagery and Meditation
   4. How to Make a Relaxation Recording: ABC Relaxation Scripting
   5. Mini-Relaxation
   6. Relaxation, Centering, and Stress Management, Exercises
5. Problem-Solving
   
   1. Productive Problem Orientation
   2. Initial Distress: Identifying Clear and Concrete Problem Cues
   3. Defining the Problem in a Way Most Likely to be Solved
   4. Generating Alternative Solutions, When Solutions Do Not Work, Exercises
6. Thinking Realistically and Productively: The Smith Irrational Beliefs Inventory,
   
   1. Understanding the Role of Distorted Thinking
   2. Catching Thoughts
   3. Reality Checking
   4. The Big Five Cognitive Distortions and the Smith Irrational Beliefs Inventory
   5. A Three Step System for Changing Distorted Thinking
   6. Cognitive Approaches and Cue-Response-Consequences
   7. Stop Worry, Exercises
7. Review and Rehearsal