Handbook of stress, coping, and health : implications for nursing research, theory, and practice / edited by Virginia Hill Rice.

Contents: PART I -- INTRODUCTION -- Stress, Coping and Health: A Conceptual Overview -- PART II -- RESPONSE-ORIENTED STRESS -- Theories of stress and relationship to health -- Stress, immunity and Health outcomes -- Physiological Measurement of the stress response -- PART III STIMULUS-ORIENTED STRESS -- Major life stressors and health outcomes -- Microstressors and health -- stress, psychosomatic illness and health -- PART IV -- INTERACTIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL MODELS -- Salutogenesis: origins of health an sense of coherence -- Evolution of a model of stress coping and discrete emotions -- Coping with stress: Programs of Nursing Research -- Stress, Coping and Health in Children -- Stress, Coping and Family Health -- PART V -- STRESS, COPING AND HEALTH: MEDIATING FACTORS -- Attitudes, Beliefs, Values and Culture as Mediators of Stress -- Social Support: The Promise and the Reality -- Type A Behavior Pattern and Cardiovascular Health -- The Acute Myocardial Infarction Coping Model: A Midrange Theory -- Hardiness: A Model of Commitment, Challenge and Control -- Hope and Hopelessness -- Locus of Control, Perceived Control and Learned Helplessness -- Self-Regulation: The Commonsense Model of Illness Representation -- Stress, Self-Efficacy and Health -- Stress, Uncertainty and Health -- PART VI -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- Stress, Coping Health and Nursing: The Future

This handbook is a comprehensive guide to stress-related disorders and how they impact on health outcomes.