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Strategic Stress Management: An Organizational Approach (Macmillan Business) (Hardcover) by Valerie J. Sutherland (Author), Cary L. Cooper

Synopsis from Amazon.co.uk
Stress has overtaken the common cold as the most common cause of sick leave in many European countries and is a major cause of concern for companies worldwide. Most texts dealing with stress consider this a problem only to be tackled by the individual? This text shows how companies can boost performance by adopting integrated organizational strategies to identify and reduce stress in their employees. It includes practical advice on how to conduct a stress audit and how to target stress "hot spots" in an organization. It offers a strategic model for the manager concerned with the negative effects stress can have both on company performance and the quality of life of individuals at work.
Note from Pat: This is one of the most authorative books on stress management available in the UK. It details a strategic approach on which organisations can base their stress policy and risk assessment. Well worth reading.

ISBN-10: 0333774876 ISBN-13: 978-0333774878

How to Deal with Stress (Paperback) by Stephen Palmer (Author), Cary L. Cooper
Note from Pat: The Sunday Times produce some excellent books in their 'How to' series. This book is from Stephen Palmer and Cary L Cooper, two of the foremost minds in the field of Stress within the UK. Shorter than Strategic Stress Management, this book provides an essential overview of a complex topic.
ISBN-10: 0749448660 ISBN-13: 978-0749448660

Managing the Causes of Work-related Stress: A Step-by-step Approach Using the Management Standards (Paperback) HSE

The definitive answer to the process of managing stress at Work. Produced by the Health & Safety Executive, this book takes the reader through the five recommended stages and includes a CD providing printable copies of the main HSE publications.
ISBN-10: 071766273X ISBN-13: 978-0717662739

Counselling for Stress Problems (Counselling in Practice series) (Paperback) by Stephen Palmer (Author), Windy Dryden (Author)
Synopsis from amazon.co.uk
'A welcome addition to the series. The co-authors...have endeavoured to give a thorough and practical guide to this vast subject and they have managed to do this within the confines of an easy-to-read, cheap and relatively short paperback...a very useful practical volume for the general counsellor to have on their book shelf' - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy This comprehensive guide views stress counselling and management from a multimodal perspective. Clear guidelines show practitioners how they can give their clients the most effective help for their stress problems using a technically eclectic and systematic approach. The authors discuss the symptoms and causes of stress and outline a framework in which stress problems can be understood. They emphasize the importance of assessment as a guide to the selection of multimodal interventions and of tailoring the counselling approach for each client. Chapters discuss the range of interventions that can be used - cognitive, imagery, behavioural, sensory, interpersonal and health/lifestyle - and the most useful techniques that can be employed within these models, such as disputing irrational beliefs, coping imagery, psychodrama, relaxation training and assertion training. Case examples illustrate commonly used techniques.

Note from Pat:  This book is written by two of the foremost authorities in the UK today on Stress (Stephen Palmer) and Counselling (Windy Dryden) and is aimed at professional counsellors and HR professionals who find themselves speaking with clients / employees who are clearly affected by stress.

The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen
Synopsis from amazon.co.uk
There's a whole new way to think about stress. Sure, some stress is inevitable, but being 'stressed out' isn't. In fact, we can learn to rechannel the powerful stress activators in our lives to make us even more effective. "Hamlet" spoke of 'suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.' These days we simply use the word 'stress' to describe that feeling. And if you ask 10 random people if they feel stressed, chances are that at least 9 will reply with a resounding, 'Yes!' Indeed, the very way we use the word implies that we are its victims - as in, 'I'm under so much stress' or 'I'm completely stressed out.' There's now a better way to look at this picture, a way to move from victim to victor. The first step is to look to the science behind it all because in the science lies a whole new message about stress. Science allows us to understand what the stress response is and why our bodies react the way they do. Like all living creatures, we're mapped to respond instinctually in certain ways, and generally for good reasons. We know, for example, that in times of emergency, we effortlessly shift into a different biological mode.Based on our perception of the crisis, our brains initiate the 'stress response' or the 'flight-or-fight reaction.