Stress Management : A Comprehensive Handbook of Techniques and Strategies - Jonathan C. Smith

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Stress Management

A Comprehensive Handbook of Techniques and Strategies

By: Jonathan C. Smith

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Hardcover | 30 September 2002

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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.

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Preface	p. xi
List of Tables and Figures	p. xiii
Stress Basics
Stress Competency and the Smith Stress Management Motivations Inventory	p. 3
Stress Concepts	p. 17
Exercises	p. 27
Crises, Catastrophes, and Acute Stress Disorder	p. 29
The Four Pillars of Stress Management
ABC Relaxation	p. 41
Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Autogenic Training	p. 47
Breathing and Stretching Exercises	p. 56
Sense Imagery and Mediation	p. 61
How to Make a Relaxation Recording: ABC Relaxation Scripting	p. 67
Mini-Relaxation	p. 84
Relaxation, Centering, and Stress Management	p. 86
Exercises	p. 88
Problem Solving	p. 89
Productive Problem Orientation	p. 89
Initial Distress: Identifying Clear and Concrete Problem Cues	p. 90
Defining the Problem in a Way Most Likely to Be Solved	p. 96
Generating Alternative Solutions	p. 97
Making the Decision	p. 98
Taking Action: Cue-Response-Consequence	p. 100
Exercises	p. 101
Thinking Realistically and Productively: The Smith Irrational Beliefs Inventory	p. 103
Understanding the Role of Distorted Thinking	p. 104
Catching Distorted Thoughts	p. 106
Reality Checking	p. 108
Cognitive Distortions and the Smith Irrational Beliefs Inventory	p. 109
Check-Challenge-Select: Changing Distorted Thinking	p. 118
Cognitive Approaches and Cue-Response-Consequences	p. 126
Stopping Worry	p. 126
Exercises	p. 134
Review and Rehearsal	p. 135
Exposure	p. 136
Desensitization	p. 142
Stress Inoculation Training and Relapse Prevention	p. 143
Processes Underlying Review and Rehearsal	p. 151
When to Choose Exposure, Desensitization, or Stress Inoculation Training	p. 151
Exercises	p. 154
Interpersonal Skills: Relationships and Stress Management
Assertiveness	p. 157
Exercises	p. 166
Empathic Listening	p. 167
Empathy and Assertive Coping	p. 167
Cue-Response-Consequences	p. 168
What to Look for When Making Empathic Inferences	p. 169
Empathic and Nonempathic Responding	p. 172
Empathy and Gendlin's Focusing	p. 177
Open-Ended, Problem-Solving, and Reality-Checking Empathy	p. 177
Exercises	p. 182
Shyness and Social Anxiety	p. 186
Characteristics of Shyness and Social Anxiety	p. 186
Shyness	p. 188
Social Anxiety	p. 194
Exercises	p. 199
Conflict, Anger, and Aggression	p. 200
Negative Assertions or Requests That Might Be Challenged (or Lead to Conflict)	p. 200
Dealing with One's Own Anger	p. 202
Dealing with Aggression and Hostility from Others	p. 205
Negotiation	p. 213
Exercises	p. 215
Task Completion Skills: Time Management, Procrastination, and Positive Beliefs
Time Management	p. 219
The Great Myth of Multitasking (and Other Distorted Beliefs)	p. 219
The Time Inventory	p. 221
Goals and Priorities	p. 223
Scheduling	p. 225
Exercises	p. 226
Procrastination	p. 227
Treating Procrastination	p. 228
The Procrastination Protocol	p. 230
Dealing with Procrastinators	p. 233
Conclusions	p. 233
Exercises	p. 234
Relaxation Beliefs, Active Coping Beliefs, and Philosophy of Life	p. 235
The Factor Structure of the Smith Irrational Beliefs Inventory--A	p. 239
References	p. 245
Index	p. 251
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A Comprehensive Handbook of Techniques and Strategies

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