Brilliant stress management : how to manage stress in any situation / Mike Clayton.
By: Clayton, Mike
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BookSeries: Brilliant: Publisher: Harlow : Prentice Hall, 2011Description: xiv, 216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780273750543.Subject(s): Stress (Psychology) | Stress managementDDC classification: 155.9042 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 155.9042 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00161134 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Brilliant Stress Management helps you work out what it is that makes you stressed and shows you how you can tackle it. Whether you crumble under pressure, get angry, or simply bury your head in the sand, this book provides effective techniques to help you take the edge off and even channel your stress in a positive way.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What stress is and is not -- Control your physical response to stress -- Control your environment -- Control your time -- Control your attitudes -- Control your mental response to stress -- Manage stress at work -- Manage stress caused by change -- Manage stress caused by conflict -- Help others to manage their stress.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- About the author (p. viii)
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- Introduction (p. x)
- 1 What stress is and is not (p. 1)
- Signs of stress (p. 3)
- Physiology of stress (p. 6)
- Type A and Type B (p. 8)
- Stress or strain? (p. 11)
- Long-term strain (p. 14)
- Stressors in your life (p. 14)
- The secret of managing stress: control (p. 17)
- 2 Control your physical response to stress (p. 25)
- Good posture (p. 28)
- Good rest (p. 33)
- Good humour (p. 40)
- Good energy (p. 41)
- Good fuel (p. 43)
- A word or two about drugs - the legal ones (p. 45)
- Healthy ageing (p. 48)
- 3 Control your environment (p. 51)
- Process (p. 54)
- Social connections (p. 57)
- Get organised (p. 59)
- Your space (p. 60)
- Your sensory environment: smells, noise, light and colour (p. 62)
- Action (p. 66)
- 4 Control your time (p. 71)
- The OATS Principle (p. 73)
- Outcomes (p. 74)
- Activities (p. 76)
- Time (p. 78)
- Schedule (p. 79)
- Procrastination (p. 80)
- Say NO (p. 82)
- Dealing with overwhelm (p. 84)
- Celebration (p. 86)
- 5 Control your attitudes (p. 89)
- The iceberg model (p. 92)
- Dangerous attitudes and limiting beliefs (p. 93)
- Know what you want (p. 100)
- From myths to mastery (p. 103)
- Asserting yourself (p. 105)
- 6 Control your mental response to stress (p. 109)
- Focus (p. 112)
- Optimism (p. 119)
- Determination, flexibility and persistence (p. 121)
- Gratitude (p. 122)
- Self-talk (p. 125)
- Breaking the cycle (p. 128)
- 7 Manage stress at work (p. 131)
- Signs and portents (p. 134)
- Your responsibility as a manager (p. 136)
- How much stress do you cause? (p. 138)
- How to not impose stress (p. 140)
- Supporting team members with stress (p. 144)
- Turning around a stressed work environment (p. 145)
- Protecting yourself from stress at work (p. 147)
- 8 Manage stress caused by change (p. 151)
- How change happens in the world (p. 153)
- How you are programmed to respond to change (p. 155)
- How to cope with the stress of change (p. 159)
- More than survival (p. 164)
- 9 Manage stress caused by conflict (p. 167)
- How to recognise escalating conflict (p. 169)
- Five approaches to dealing with conflict (p. 172)
- Seven-step process for resolving conflict (p. 175)
- Mediation and arbitration (p. 177)
- 10 Help others to manage their stress (p. 183)
- Listening (p. 185)
- Helping someone to regain control (p. 192)
- Blame and reason (p. 196)
- Expert help (p. 199)
- Relax: last words on stress (p. 201)
- Relax (p. 201)
- Appendix 1 101 ways to reduce your stress (p. 202)
- Appendix 2 Learn more (p. 208)
- Index (p. 210)