Most of us know Stress Management in bits and pieces. This effort is an illustrated endeavor to concisely place relevant details in sequence and make Stress Management easier to understand and implement for a better life. This book includes various important illustrations and a flow chart which helps to apply stress management step by step.

Don't get stressed out, get the stress out. Bestselling author George's book is a chunky, charmingly illustrated volume packed with quick fixes like visualization and aromatherapy, as well as big-picture solutions such as eliminating clutter, overcoming bad habits, and creating more harmonious relationships.

Don't get stressed out, get the stress out. Bestselling author George's book is a chunky, charmingly illustrated volume packed with quick fixes like visualization and aromatherapy, as well as big-picture solutions such as eliminating clutter, overcoming bad habits, and creating more harmonious relationships.

We all need to relax. If only it were as easy as it sounds! Now, with this beautifully illustrated and practical volume, anyone can learn to let go. Offering almost 30 ingenious and easy-to-do exercises tailor-made for busy people, plus original illustrations to aid visualization and a friendly text that's low on jargon, Learn to Relax presents effective ways to ease tension at work, at home, or on the road. Stress counselor Mike George suggests simple techniques for breathing, massage, anxiety control, time management, sleep enrichment, detachment, and meditation, all designed to calm the mind. Drawn from both Eastern and Western traditions, this book's easy yet highly effective strategies reveal how we can put problems in perspective, deepen self-awareness, and celebrate the positive in life. Practical and inspirational in the style of Teach Yourself to Dream, Learn to Relax is the only accessible illustrated relaxation book on the market -- and an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to rediscover the essential art of relaxation.

This updated edition covers a range of new topics, including stress and the immune system, post-traumatic stress and crisis intervention, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), Crisis Management Briefings in response to mass disasters and terrorism, Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), spirituality and religion as stress management tools, dietary factors and stress, and updated information on psychopharmacologic intervention in the human stress response. It is a comprehensive and accessible guide for students, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, medicine, nursing, social work, and public health.

Reckoning with Ourselves is an illustrated meditation on the causes of chronic pain and it illuminates the many positive things we can do to change our condition and resolve our pain using a mind-body approach. If you suffer from back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, sciatica, chronic sciatica, chronic knee pain, tendonitis, TMJ or other forms of chronic pain, you may be looking for new ideas on this difficult issue. This book explains the basic function of chronic pain from its physiological foundations, describes the effects on the body, offers solutions to the immediate pain problem, and gives concrete solutions to reverse the cause of this universal, human condition. The book is printed in a format that is easy to read and written in a style that is both unique, and entertaining. When we have the full comprehension that our physical pain is often a simple conflict within ourselves, which we are able to manage, we receive a gift that can set us free. Having the knowledge to change the course of our health is a most empowering benefit of this book. Knowing the simple mechanics of Tension-Based Pain will help us to stop pain as soon as it starts and address the origin of the problem - today and into the future. Tired of treating chronic pain – start Healing it!

The Stahl's Illustrated books are a series of pocket-sized, mid-priced, themed volumes. They distil theoretical information from the Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology volume and combine this with practical data from The Prescriber's Guide. They are illustration heavy and designed to encourage speedy learning of both concepts and applications. The visual learner will find that these books make the concepts easier to master, and the non-visual learner will appreciate the clear, shortened text on complex psychopharmacological concepts. This volume covers the latest developments in our understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety. As well as covering the full range of management options, there is a specific focus on the implications for military populations. The Stahl's Illustrated series appeals to the widest possible audience of mental health professionals, and not just those with expertise in psychopharmacology.