Stress, Coping, and Development
An Integrative Perspective
Aldwin, Carolyn M., Ph.D.
Werner, Emmy E. (FRW)
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BOOK SUMMARY
Now in a thoroughly revised and significantly expanded second edition, this volume comprehensively examines the nature of psychosocial stress, the strategies individuals use to cope with it, and the implications for adaptation and health across the lifesp
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Now in a thoroughly revised and significantly expanded second edition, this volume comprehensively examines the nature of psychosocial stress, the strategies individuals use to cope with it, and the implications for adaptation and health across the lifespan. Carolyn M. Aldwin synthesizes a vast body of knowledge within a conceptual framework that emphasizes the transactions between mind and body and between persons and environments. She also provides a methodological primer for stress and coping research, critically reviewing available measures and the latest data analysis techniques.
New in the Second Edition
*Updated throughout with new concepts, tools, and data
*Two new chapters address physiology and physical health
*Expanded coverage of sociocultural and religious aspects of coping
*Cutting-edge perspectives on emotion regulation and stress-related growth
*Expanded coverage of childhood, young adulthood, and mid-life
AUTHOR BIO
Carolyn M. Aldwin, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis. She received her doctorate from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1982 and was a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral scholar in Human Development, Environmental Demands, and Health. Dr. Aldwin received a FIRST award from the National Institute on Aging for her study of psychosocial factors affecting health in aging early in her career; she has published more than 70 articles and chapters in this area and coedited the Handbook of Health Psychology and Aging for Guilford Press. Dr. Aldwin is a fellow of both Divisions 20 (Adult Development and Aging) and 38 (Health Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, as well as of the Gerontological Society of America.
BOOK REVIEWS
"In this second edition, Aldwin provides an informed overview of the huge body of research and theory on coping. She presents potentially difficult content in easy-to-digest terms and covers a broad array of important issues. Thus, the book is ideal for graduate-level classes. It also will be of great interest to social and behavioral scientists and professionals who want to understand the basic empirical findings on this important topic and their relevance to real-world concerns, particularly in the areas of mental and physical health and aging."--Nancy Eisenberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University "Carolyn Aldwin has further enriched a book that was already rich in ideas, facts, and theory. This second edition offers a comprehensive account of the field of stress and coping with some very appealing new material, especially in the areas of development, positive aspects of stress, social aspects of stress, and stress and health. Aldwins multidisciplinary perspective is exactly what is needed in the field."--Susan Folkman, PhD, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco "I didn't realize that there was so much I didn't know about stress until I read this book. While giving fair coverage to reductionism and interactionism, Aldwin makes a convincing case for transactionism as a way to integrate a vast amount of research on stress. Anyone interested in health psychology will find this second edition very useful."--Ellen J. Langer, PhD, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1572308400
ISBN(13-digit): 9781572308404
Dewey Decimal: 155.9/042
Library of Congress: 2006101615
Book Publisher: Guilford Pubn
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 432
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