Handbook of Stress, Coping and Health

Virginia Hill Rice, PhD, RN, CS, FAAN is Professor of Nursing at the Wayne State University college of Nursing and Professor of Oncology at the Wayne Sate University College of medicine and the Karmonos Cancer Institute. She received the Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing Research and Midwest Nursing Research Society's Stress and Coping Research Section's Advancement of Science in Stress and Coping Award. Virginia Hill Rice is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Stress, Coping and Health - Brenda L Lyon A Conceptual Overview PART TWO: RESPONSE ORIENTED STRESS Theories of Stress and Relationship to Health - Virginia Hill Rice Stress, Immunity and Health Outcomes - Linda Witek-Janusek and Herbert L Mathews Physiological Measurements of the Stress Response - Jill M White and Carol Mattson Porth PART THREE: STIMULUS ORIENTED STRESS Major Life Stressors and Health Outcomes - Joan Stehl Werner and Marlene Hanson Frost Micro-Stressors and Health Outcomes - Carol L Macnee and Susan McCabe Stress, Psychosomatic Illness and Health - Frances B Wimbush and Margot L Nelson PART FOUR: INTERACTIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL MODELS Salutogenesis - Martha E Horsbough 'Origins of Health' and Sense of Coherence Evolution of a Model of Stress, Coping and Discrete Emotions - Richard S Lazarus Coping with Stress - Jane H Backer et al Programs of Nursing Research Stress, Coping and Health in Children - Nancy Ryan-Wenger, Christine A Wynd and Vicki W Sharrer Stress, Coping and Family Health - Rosanna DeMarco et al PART FIVE: STRESS, COPING AND HEALTH: MEDIATING FACTORS Attitudes, Beliefs, Values and Culture as Mediators of Stress - Jill A Cohen and Lorraine M Welch Social Support - Patricia Underwood The Promise and the Reality Type A Behavior and Cardiovascular Health - Sue A Thomas and Erika Friedman The Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Coping Model - Nancy R Reynolds and Angelo A Alonzo A Midrange Theory Hardiness - Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and Judith A Cohen A Model of Commitment, Challenge and Control Hope and Hopelessness - Edith D Hunt Raleigh Locus of Control, Perceived Control, and Learned Helplessness - JoAnn B Ruiz-Bueno Self-Regulation - Nancy R Reynolds and Angelo A Alonzo The Common Sense Model of Illness Representation Stress, Self-Efficacy and Health - Debra Siela and Ann W Wieseke Stress, Uncertainty and Health - Cecilia R Barron PART SIX: FUTURE DIRECTIONS Stress, Coping, Health and Nursing - Brenda L Lyon and Virginia Hill Rice The Future