Includes glossary,photo credits and index.

Scientific foundationns -- What is stress? -- Stress psychophysiology -- Stress and illness/disease -- General applications : life-situation and perception interventions -- Stress and the college student -- Intervention -- Life-situation interventions : intrapersonal -- Life-situation interventions : interpersonal -- Perception interventions -- Spirituality and stress -- General applications : relaxation techniques -- Meditation -- Autogenic training, imagery, and progressive relaxation -- Other relaxation techniques -- General applications : physiological arousal and behavior change interventions -- Physiological arousal interventions -- Strategies for decreasing stressful behaviors -- Diversity and stress -- Specific applications -- Occupational stress -- Family stress.