Stress and your health from vulnerability to resilience /
"Stress and Your Health: From Vulnerability to Resilience presents an evidence-based evaluation of the various effects of stress, along with methods to alleviate distress and stress-related illnesses. Examines myriad stressor effects and proven ways to alleviate stress in our lives; Covers a wi...
| Main Author: | Anisman, Hymie, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA :
Wiley Blackwell,
2015.
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 280 pages ; 23 cm. Also available as an ebook. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- What this book is about
- What do we mean when we talk about stressors?
- Characteristics of stressors: comparing apples, oranges, and lemons
- Chronic stressors and allostatic overload
- Before you go ...
- Vulnerability and resilience
- Genetic influences
- Age
- Sex
- Personality differences in relation to stress responses
- Previous stressor experiences
- Stress generation
- Before you go ...
- Appraising stressors
- Guidance through primary and secondary appraisals
- Thinking fast and slow
- Guideposts and anchors
- Appraisals based on what others think
- Appraisals in relation to learning, memory, automaticity, expectation, and habit
- Positive and negative emotions
- Gauging stressors
- Before you go ...
- First responses to stressors
- Coping methods
- Personal growth and finding meaning
- Social support
- Loneliness
- Unsupportive interactions
- Social rejection
- Forgiveness and trust
- Empathy
- Before you go ...
- What's a hormone?
- Linking hormones and behaviors
- Hormonal stress response
- Hormones of the autonomic nervous system
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and glucocorticoids
- What cortisol (corticosterone) does for us
- Cortisol/corticosterone response to an acute stressor
- Cortisol variations in humans
- Yesterday's stressors influence today's responses
- A cacophony of hormones associated with stress, eating and energy regulation: leptin, ghrelin, CRH, and neuropeptide Y
- Oxytocin and positive responses
- Estrogen and testosterone
- Before you go ...
- Neuronal and glial processes in relation to challenges
- Stressors influence neurotransmitter functioning
- Acetylcholine (ACh)
- Serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine
- Corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH): beyond the HPA system
- Glutamate
- Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
- Cannabinoids
- Neurotrophic factors
- Past influences the future
- Before you go ...
- A brief look at how the immune system works
- Cells of the immune system
- Immune memories
- Cytokines: messenger molecules of the immune system
- Immune[
- ]hormone interactions
- Stress, brain processes, and immunological changes
- Cytokine changes in response to stressors
- Before you go ...
- Connections over time
- Prenatal experiences
- Biological correlates of prenatal stress in humans
- Consequences of prenatal infection in animals and humans
- Stress experienced early in life
- Transitional periods
- Older age
- Before you go ...
- Coronary artery disease (CAD)
- Heart's response to a challenge
- Psychosocial factors associated with heart disease
- Influence of stressors on heart disease
- Job strain
- Depressive illness and heart disease
- Socioeconomic status (SES)
- Sex-dependent trajectories for heart disease
- Personality factors and heart disease
- Type A personality
- Type D personality
- Physiological stress responses associated with heart disease
- Sympathetic nervous system reactivity
- Inflammatory processes in heart disease
- Stress, pathogen burden, and heart disease
- Obesity, cytokines, and heart disease
- Before you go ...
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
- Stressor influences in relation to the development of Type 2 diabetes
- Immune factors in Type 2 diabetes
- Genetic contributions
- Before you go ...
- Immunity and illness
- Allergies
- Infectious illness
- Stressors influence vulnerability and the course of infectious illness
- Autoimmune disorders
- Exacerbation of autoimmune disorders by stressful experiences
- Before you go ...
- Cancer process
- Stress[
- ]cancer link
- Implication for cancer treatment
- Stress stemming from cancer
- Treating cancer-related distress
- Before you go ...
- What is depression?
- Depressive subtypes
- Cognitive theories of depressive disorders
- Helplessness
- Hopelessness
- Depression from an evolutionary perspective
- Depression from a neurochemical vantage
- Neurobiological explanations of depressive disorders
- Serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine in relation to depressive disorders
- Gene and environmental interactions
- Reward processes in depression: dopamine and anhedonia
- Depression and anxiety: corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) as a player in depression
- Coordination and discoordination of neuronal process: gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
- Growth factors and depression
- Inflammatory processes and depressive disorders
- Before you go ...
- A plague of anxiety disorders
- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Panic disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Phobias and social anxiety
- Before you go ...
- Acute stress disorder
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Vulnerability and resilience
- Neuroanatomical underpinnings of PTSD
- Biochemical determinants of PTSD
- CRH and corticoids in relation to PTSD-related memories
- Norepinephrine and serotonin and PTSD-related memories
- GABA and the extinction of fear responses in PTSD
- Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and resilience
- Before you go ...
- What's an addiction
- Stress as a provocateur in the addiction process
- Reward and aversion in relation to addiction: a multistep process
- Dopamine in relation to stress and reward
- Corticotropin hormone in relation to stress and addiction
- Can eating become an addiction?
- An integrated perspective
- Treatment for addictions
- Before you go ...
- How might illness come to affect health?
- Major physical illnesses
- What patients know and what they need to know
- Appraising and coping with illness
- Personal control, decision-making, and trust
- Social support and unsupportive interactions in the face of illness
- Mood changes associated with illness
- Adjustment to chronic illnesses: psychological resilience in the face of illness
- Stress associated with caregiving
- Loss and grief
- Before you go ...
- Job-related distress
- Status and job strain
- Burnout
- Absenteeism and presenteeism
- Bullying in the workplace
- Social support in the workplace
- Trust in the workplace
- Unemployment
- Time management and juggling
- Before you go ...
- Traveling across generations
- Parental stress influences on children
- Intergenerational effects of trauma: beyond poor parenting
- Environments modify gene actions
- Case of epigenetic effects
- Collective and historic trauma
- Before you go ...
- Prelude to dealing with stress
- Relaxation training
- Exposure therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT)
- Meditation
- Mindfulness
- Default mode network
- Positive psychotherapy (PPT)
- Giving and receiving
- Social cure
- Before you go ...
- Something about drug treatments
- Placebo and nocebo responses
- Selecting the right treatment and related caveats
- Treating depression
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
- A cocktail of acronyms: SNRI, NDRI, NaSSA, MAOI
- Ketamine
- Deep brain stimulation
- Anti-inflammatory agents
- Treating anxiety disorders
- Treating PTSD
- Herbal (naturopathic) treatments
- Before you go ...
- It's OK to go now ...