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 Wide Range Of Stressor-related Topics Including Therapeutic Strategies To Deal With Stress And Factors That Hinder Treatment Of Stress Makes Difficult Biochemical And Immunological Concepts Accessible To A Non-specialist Audience Addresses Many Of The Factors That Cause Individuals To Be More Vulnerable To The Impact Of Stressors And At Increased Risk For Pathology -- Covers A Wide Range Of Stressor-related Topics Including Therapeutic Strategies To Deal With Stress And Factors That Hinder Treatment Of Stress-- Machine Generated Contents Note: What This Book Is About -- What Do We Mean When We Talk About Stressors? -- The 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 -- The Hormonal Stress Response -- Hormones Of The Autonomic Nervous System -- The Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (hpa) Axis And Glucocorticoids -- What Cortisol (corticosterone) Does For Us -- The 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 -- The 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) -- The Heart's Response To A Challenge -- Psychosocial Factors Associated With Heart Disease -- The 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 ... -- The Cancer Process -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The Default Mode Network -- Positive Psychotherapy (ppt) -- Giving And Receiving -- The 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 (naturopatbic) Treatments -- Before You Go ... -- It's Ok To Go Now ... Hymie Anisman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web. "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 wide range of stressor-related topics including therapeutic strategies to deal with stress and factors that hinder treatment of stress Makes difficult biochemical and immunological concepts accessible to a non-specialist audience Addresses many of the factors that cause individuals to be more vulnerable to the impact of stressors and at increased risk for pathology "-- Résumé de l'éditeur __Stress and Your Health: From Vulnerability to Resilience__ * Examines myriad stressor effects and proven ways to alleviate stress in our lives * Covers a wide range of stressor-related topics including therapeutic strategies to deal with stress and factors that hinder treatment of stress * Makes difficult biochemical and immunological concepts accessible to a non-specialist audience * Addresses many of the factors that cause individuals to be more vulnerable to the impact of stressors and at increased risk for pathology