8 Keys to Stress Management (8 Keys to Mental Health) - Softcover

Scott, Elizabeth Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393708098 ISBN 13: 9780393708097

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

Synopsis

Easy strategies for dealing with the near-universal experience of stress.

Stress has become a near-universal experience as well as a rising public health concern.

According to many measures, people today are dealing with stressors that are greater in number and severity than in the past several decades, and this stress is taking a toll on our collective wellness.

Bringing considerable content from her popular stress management Web site on About.com, Elizabeth Scott distills information about stress management into central ideas and strategies for consumers. These include learning to reduce the stress response and stressors, practicing long-term resilience habits, and putting positive psychology research into action. These various perspectives provide a multilayered framework for understanding stress and approaching stress management that is inspirational, action-oriented, and backed by foundational and recent knowledge in the field.

The quick-to-read “8 keys” format of the book can be utilized on many levels so that busy readers can quickly find relief from stress.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Stress management shouldn't be stressful!  Chronic stress takes a heavy toll on physical and emotional wellbeing, and it can be difficult to know where to even begin to manage it. In this easy-to-grasp, research-based book, Elizabeth Anne Scott draws from multiple branches of psychology to share current information about the effects of stress as well as the most powerful techniques to manage it. Use this book to gain a clearer understanding of stress and start feeling better right away.  You can then create lasting habits that bring increased long-term resilience toward stress, at a pace that works for you.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Anne Scott is an award-winning blogger and wellness coach with an MS in counseling. She has helped thousands of people through her writing and stress management workshops.

Babette Rothschild, MSW, has been a practitioner since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. She is a bestselling author of six books, all published by WW Norton and translated into more than a dozen languages. She is also the creator and Series Editor of the 8 Keys to Mental Health Series.

After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark she returned to her native Los Angeles where she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, consult, and supervise professional psychotherapists of all sorts worldwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393708098
• ISBN 13: 9780393708097
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224