Stress and Adjustment

Whether you’ve just lost a job, gotten divorced, or are dealing with the troubles of everyday life, the stress that results can take a toll on your mind and body. You must learn how to cope if you want to be healthy and happy. Paul W. Gulgowski, PhD, examines techniques that enable you to modify psychological and cognitive responses to stress, thereby lessening its toll on the body and mind. Adjusting to stress can help you: • avoid physical illness that can follow considerable stress; • cope with environmental factors such as noise and crowding if you live in the city and isolation and the effects of bad weather if you live in the country; and • accept and react to uncontrollable events that interrupt life. We cannot always control our environment, but we can take steps to cope with the inevitable stresses of life. Stress and Adjustment offers techniques to help you modify your psychological and cognitive responses to stress and make it easier for you to cope.