Stress Management Workbook: Techniques and Self Assessment Procedures
Sandy E. Gramling
Stephen M. Auerbach, both of Virginia Commonwealth University

ISBN-10: 0138539200
ISBN-13: 9780138539207

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1998
Format: Paper; 176 pp
Published: 07/29/1997

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  • For use as a supplement or a stand-alone book in stress management courses found in the Psychology curriculum.
  • This book takes a skill training approach to the acquisition and application of specific stress management techniques. Building on fundamental skills given in early chapters, this book acts as a flow chart which identifies those stress management techniques most useful in specific stressful situations.

  • This workbook helps students identify the situational determinants, or “triggers” of one's stress response.
  • The book's flexibility allows students to tailor a stress management program.
  • Well established learning principles are incorporated to maximize the students' ability to learn and apply the stress management techniques.
  • Numerous “stress” cases are included to illustrate the use of the various techniques.
  • Students are encouraged to interact with the text by completing simple written and experiential exercises.
  • Specific skills are presented in a pyramid format.

    • Section I presents the most general and fundamental of all stress management exercises.

    • The skills presented in section II are the building blocks of stress management.

    • Sections III and IV draw on the skills learned in sections I and II allowing students to begin building tailored stress management programs.

I. FUNDAMENTALS OF EMOTION-FOCUSED AND PROBLEM-FOCUSED COPING.

 1. Help! I'm All Stressed Out.

 2. Deep Breathing Exercises: The Fundamental Emotion-Focused Coping Skill.

 3. Self-Assessment: A Fundamental Problem-Focused Skill.

II. BASIC SKILLS TO CHANGE FEELINGS, THOUGHTS, AND ACTIONS.

 4. Lowering Arousal and Changing Negative Emotion.

 5. Changing Unrealistic Thoughts and Beliefs.

 6. Direct Action to Change the Stressful Situation.

III. SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS FOR FEELLINGS, THOUGHTS, AND ACTIONS.

 7. Visualization and Imagery.

 8. Controlling Anger and Building Frustration Tolerance.

 9. Stopping Unwanted Thoughts.

10. Stress Inoculation Training.

11. Assertiveness Training.

12. Social Skills Training.

13. Time Management.

IV. STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR SPECIFIC POPULATIONS AND PROBLEMS.

14. Stress Management for Head and Facial Pain.

15. Stress Management for Sexual Difficulties.

16. Stress Management for Substance Abuse: Smoking Cessation and Controlled Drinking.

References and Additional Readings.

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