Hymie Anisman, Kimberly Matheson

An Introduction to Stress and Health (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With a new chapter dedicated to psychosocial and environmental stressors such as racism, climate change, discrimination, collective trauma, and settler colonialism, this fully updated second edition of An Introduction to Stress and Health explains how chronic and acute stress can precipitate changes in the body that exacerbate and contribute to conditions including heart disease, diabetes, and depression.

This is the first textbook to blend psychosocial and behavioural neuroscience perspectives, giving you a broad understanding of the immunological, neurochemical, hormonal and growth factor processes that can be influenced by stress. Anisman and Matheson further invite you to consider how different interventions and therapeutic strategies might be used to deal with stress and its consequences on the body.

Its lively writing, fascinating case studies and signposts to further reading make this an indispensable guide for postgraduate students taking courses in health psychology, and stress, health, and illness.

Hymie Anisman is Professor of Neuroscience at Carleton University.
Kimberly Matheson is Research Chair in Culture and Gender Mental Health and Professor of Neuroscience at The Royal Ottawa's Institute of Mental Health Research and Carleton University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529610192
• Artikelnr.: 64247543

Autorenporträt

Hymie Anisman received his PhD in 1972 (University of Waterloo), and has been a Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, since that time, while also holding an adjunct appointment with the Institute of Mental Health Research (Royal Ottawa Hospital). Professor Anisman was a Senior Ontario Mental Health Research Fellow (1999-2006), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has held a Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience since 2001. The principle theme of his research has concerned the influence of stressors on neurochemical and neuroendocrine systems, and how these influence psychological (anxiety, depression) and physical (immune-related and neurodegenerative) disorders. His work has spanned animal models to assess stress-related pathology as well as studies in humans to assess stress, coping, and appraisal processes. In this regard, he has assessed the impact of chronic strain emanating from discrimination and stigmatization on well-being, depression, and PTSD among refugees from war-torn regions and among Aboriginal groups that suffered childhood traumatization, distress associated with abusive relationships and life transitions, as well as the transmission of trauma effects across generations. In addition to sitting on the editorial boards of several journals and on numerous grant panels, Professor Anisman has published more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, as well as several review papers within neuroscience and psychology journals, and has edited two books, one dealing with stress processes and the second concerning psychoneuroimmunology. As well, he has published two books dealing with Stress and Health. One of these, published by SAGE, was meant as a textbook for university students, and the other was written for lay audiences. His research has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Ontario Mental Health Foundation (OMHF), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and the Canada Research Chairs program (CRC).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Nature of Stressors
Chapter 2: Appraisals, Coping, and Well-Being
Chapter 3: Psychosocial and Environmental Determinants of Health
Chapter 4: Hormonal Changes Associated with Stressors
Chapter 5: Neurotransmitter Processes and Growth Factor Changes
Chapter 6: The Immunological and Microbial Effects of Stressors
Chapter 7: Stress, Immunity, and Disease
Chapter 8: Cardiovascular Disease
Chapter 9: Depressive Illnesses
Chapter 10: Anxiety Disorders and PTSD
Chapter 11: Addiction
Chapter 12: Transmission of Trauma Across Generations
Chapter 13: Stress Busting: Treatment Strategies