Stress, Appraisal, and Coping

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Springer Publishing Company, Mar 15, 1984 - Medical - 456 pages

The reissue of a classic work, now with a foreword by Daniel Goleman!

Here is a monumental work that continues in the tradition pioneered by co-author Richard Lazarus in his classic book Psychological Stress and the Coping Process. Dr. Lazarus and his collaborator, Dr. Susan Folkman, present here a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping which have become major themes of theory and investigation.

As an integrative theoretical analysis, this volume pulls together two decades of research and thought on issues in behavioral medicine, emotion, stress management, treatment, and life span development. A selective review of the most pertinent literature is included in each chapter. The total reference listing for the book extends to 60 pages.

This work is necessarily multidisciplinary, reflecting the many dimensions of stress-related problems and their situation within a complex social context. While the emphasis is on psychological aspects of stress, the book is oriented towards professionals in various disciplines, as well as advanced students and educated laypersons. The intended audience ranges from psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, nurses, and social workers to sociologists, anthropologists, medical researchers, and physiologists.

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... important , the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping , not yet in the main- stream of thought in 1966 , had become major themes of interdiscipli- nary theory and research , and our own approaches to these con- cepts had further ...
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... important issues and research rele- vant to our conceptualization . We have had to be highly selective and have experienced ambivalence about whether or not to cite par- ticular discourses or research studies . This is an idea book ...
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... important role in the evolution of the stress concept in medicine to Harold G. Wolff , who wrote about life stress and disease in the 1940s and 1950s ( e.g. , Wolff , 1953 ) . Like Selye and Cannon , who conceived of stress as a ...
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... important issues of stress and performance , yet in a way that encourages the investigation of individual differences . Psychosomatic medicine burgeoned about 50 years ago ( Lipowski , 1977 ) but subsequently underwent a dramatic ...
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... important factors . Therefore , the advent of a science of environment brought stress theory and research an ex ... importance in human and animal adaptation . Stress , then , is not a variable but a rubric consisting of many ...

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Contents

1 The Stress Concept in the Life Sciences
1
2 Cognitive Appraisal Processes
22
3 Person Factors Influencing Appraisal
55
4 Situation Factors Influencing Appraisal
82
5 The Concept of Coping
117
An Alternative to Traditional Formulations
141
7 Appraisal Coping and Adaptational Outcomes
181
8 The Individual and Society
226
9 Cognitive Theories of Emotion
261
10 Methodological Issues
286
11 Treatment and Stress Management
334
References
376
Index
437
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Richard S. Lazarus, PhD,Susan Folkman, PhD
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About the author (1984)

Richard S. Lazarus (1922-2002) taught at Johns Hopkins University, Clark University, and, from 1957 until his retirement in 1991, the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Dr. Lazarus began his influential research into psychological stress and coping processes which contributed substantially to the "cognitive revolution" that occurred in psychology during the 1960's. Dr. Lazarus published over 200 scientific articles in social, personality, clinical, and health psychology and 20 books

Susan Folkman, PhD, is the Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the Osher Foundation Distinguished Professor of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 1990, she has also been Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and from 1994 until 2001 she was Co-Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.

Bibliographic information

TitleStress, Appraisal, and Coping
AuthorsRichard S. Lazarus, PhD, Susan Folkman, PhD
Editionreprint
PublisherSpringer Publishing Company, 1984
ISBN0826141927, 9780826141927
Length456 pages
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