Focusing on contemporary issues such as drug use and AIDS, drug testing and law-enforcement concerns, this text has strong historical and sociological foundations to put the material into perspective for students. Short, concise chapters allow instructors flexibility in dividing the material into reading assignments. There is coverage of all current treatments, allowing students to understand the relationship between the problem and the treatment, and easy-to-follow material on the physiological effects of drugs on the central nervous system.

Drugs, a Factual Account

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Girdano, Daniel A.

Dusek, Dorothy

Addiction & Recovery

Mcgraw-Hill College

Drugs: A Factual Account

Medical Books

Dusek, Dorothy E.

Medicine

Random House, Inc.

Drug Education: Content and Methods

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub

This text is appropriate as a main text for Stress Management courses taught out of Health Education, Psychology, Nursing, and Physical Education departments at four-year schools. This text is designed to translate scientific stress concepts into an understandable, practical format. It presents a holistic approach to health that stresses the relationship between mind, body, and emotion in stress management. Written with students' needs in mind, the text helps students discover their problems through self-assessment exercises.

Controlling Stress and Tension: A Holistic Approach

Self-Help

Stress Management

PRENTICE/HALL

Controlling stress and tension: A holistic approach

Controlling Stress and Tension takes a multifaceted, holistic approach to stress management. The first part of the book discusses the stress problem and our potential for achieving solutions to it. The next chapters examine potential stress-producing elements in everyday life. The remainder of the book offers techniques for alleviating stress and tension. Personal journal activities and self-assessments placed throughout the book encourage readers to apply the concepts they have learned to themselves. These activities are brought together at the conclusion of the book, helping readers develop their own stress-management program. The Seventh Edition is highlighted by a new art and photography program and journaling exercises incorporated into the book (in previous editions, journaling activities were offered in a separate supplement). Stress, Stressors, and Stress Management, Systems That Control Stress Arousal, The Body's Response to Stress, Stressful Emotions, Thoughts, and Beliefs, The Human Spirit, Patterns of Behavior, Demands and Expectations, Human-Environment Interaction, Relationships, Trauma and Terror, Stress in the Workplace, Breathing and Relaxation, Muscle Relaxation, Autogenics and Visual Imagery, Yoga and Stretch-Relaxation, Meditation, Physical Activity, Your Personal Stress Management Plan. For college instructors and students, or anyone interested in issues relating to stress management.

Controlling Stress and Tension takes a multifaceted, holistic approach to stress management. The first part of the book discusses the stress problem and our potential for achieving solutions to it. The next chapters examine potential stress-producing elements in everyday life. The remainder of the book offers techniques for alleviating stress and tension. Personal journal activities and self-assessments placed throughout the book encourage readers to apply the concepts they have learned to themselves. These activities are brought together at the conclusion of the book, helping readers develop their own stress-management program. The Seventh Edition is highlighted by a new art and photography program and journaling exercises incorporated into the book (in previous editions, journaling activities were offered in a separate supplement).  Stress, Stressors, and Stress Management, Systems That Control Stress Arousal, The Body's Response to Stress, Stressful Emotions, Thoughts, and Beliefs, The Human Spirit, Patterns of Behavior, Demands and Expectations, Human-Environment Interaction, Relationships, Trauma and Terror, Stress in the Workplace, Breathing and Relaxation, Muscle Relaxation, Autogenics and Visual Imagery, Yoga and Stretch-Relaxation, Meditation, Physical Activity, Your Personal Stress Management Plan.  For college instructors and students, or anyone interested in issues relating to stress management.

Psychology & Counseling

The Body's Response to Stress, Personality Causes of Stress, Breathing and Relaxation. Autogenics and Visual Imagery, Mediation and Altered States of Consciousness are examples of the chapter headings in this edition of a how-to-do-it approach to stress management.

Experiencing Health

Everly, George Stotelmyer

Pearson College Div

Drug Education, Content and Methods (Addison-Wesley Series in Health Education)

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

Soft covered book titled DRUG EDUCATION CONTENT AND METHODS by Daniel Girdano and Dorothy Dusek, 1972, 3rd Edition. Topics include: Why Drugs? Physiological Basis of Drug Action on the Central Nervous System, Alcohol, Marijuana: The Great Debate, LSD and other Hallucinogens, Amphetamines and Other Stimulants, Smoking and Health, Barbiturates and Nonbarbiturate Sedatives, The Opiates, Nonprescription Drugs, Drugs and the Law, On Being High.

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