Includes index.

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