Chapter 16: Stress, Health and Coping
Learning Objectives
- Understand the nature of stress and its impact on personal, social, economic and political health.
- Describe the psychological and physiological interactions initiated by stress.
- Identify health symptoms resulting from stress.
- Define coping and adaptation.
- Understand the various conceptualizations of stress as stimulus, response and transactional process.
- Understand the role of cognition and physiology in coping with stress.
- Recognize emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies.
- Understand the relationships and interactions between health, stress and coping.
- Appreciate the costs associated with stress-related illness in the workplace.
- Understand the unique role that organizational change plays in the growing levels of workplace stress.
- Gain a general understanding of prevalent stress management and workplace wellness strategies.
